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SING ANYTHING Sung by: A.C. McGouyrk Recorded in Jamestown, AR 7/29/62 Click here to listen to the original recording Neither lend nor borrow nor steal. Only bake a hoecake Of Indian cornmeal. Treat the ladies kindly, Never kiss them on the sly. Big pig or little pig, Root hog or die. Sing anything, sing anything, That's what the people say. A love song, a comic song, To pass the time away. A love song, a comic song, Sing me something, sing. Sing something old, sing something new, Or sing just anything. A boy in North Carolina a hundred years ago, A man in Indiana had a rooster that would crow. A girl in Minnesota had icicles on her nose. They say Grover Cleveland had bunions on his toes. Sing anything . . . (Mr. McGouyrk: "Chorus comes in there now." Mrs. Peel: "Jonah was a fisherman . . . Jonah was a fisherman.") Jonah was a fisherman that swallowed up the whale. Cain killed his brother Abel and is now bound down in jail. Chew your own tobacco, Neither lend nor borrow nor steal. Only bake a hoecake of Indian corn meal. Treat the ladies kind, And never kiss them on the sly. Big pig a little pig a root hog or die. (Mr. McGouyrk: "Then the chorus." Mrs. Peel: "Sing anything, sing anything, Is what the people say . . . Let's see.") A boy in North Carolina hundred years ago. . . (Mrs. Peel: "Chew your own tobacco, Neither lend nor borrow nor steal. Bake your own hoecake out of Indian corn meal. Treat the ladies kind, And never kiss them on the sly. Little pig, big pig, Root hog or die. Sing anything, sing anything, Is what the people say. A long song, a short song, To pass the time away. A love song, a comic song, Sing me something, sing. Sing something old or something new, Or just sing anything.") |
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