My friend Phil always comes up with neat song and adapts them to his own fiddling style. He took the leadbelly, field holler-style Stewball and made it a great bluesy fiddle tune in F. The point being, I never know where his tunes are from and like finding out randomly. For the past winter he has been singing this song with the chorus, "I got good potatoes, not green tomatoes, potatoes and butter, I got them on my trail..."
I have been eyeing this vegetable thread and finally someone said it, "Good potatoes." I just downloaded a few versions, and although the lyrics are a little different, what a great song!! There is a sleepy john estes song on the Yazoo compilation, near the end of the disc, that says something along the lines of. "It's a shame to turn the ground in wintertime. Let the plants rot, that's fertilizer for the ground" Again, I am paraphrasing, but I am in the library and don't think people want to hear Sleepy John singing about rotting plants. Mike Hoff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
