SOunds like Mississippi John Hurt and his 'no more tomatoes, the frost done killed the vine' or suchlike
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Mike Hoffmann <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
