Down on the Corner – Creedence Clearwater Revival CCR acoustic guitar & harmonica (Jack Straw cover)
From CCR's 1969 Willy and the Poor Boys album. This John Fogerty composition reached #3.
Great tune with a great rhythm. Something a folkie can cover from a rock band.
If you cannot hear Willy and the Poor Boys you can listen to this video.
Lyrics:
Early in the evenin' just about supper time,
Over by the courthouse they're starting to unwind.
Four kids on the corner trying to bring you up.
Willy picks a tune out and he blows it on the harp.
Down On The Corner, out in the street,
Willy and the Poor Boys are playin';
Bring a nickel; tap your feet.
Rooster hits the washboard and people just got to smile,
Blinky, thumps the gut bass and solos for a while.
Poorboy twangs the rhythm out on his kalamazoo.
Willy goes into a dance and doubles on kazoo.
Down On The Corner, out in the street,
Willy and the Poor Boys are playin';
Bring a nickel; tap your feet.
Down On The Corner, out in the street,
Willy and the Poor Boys are playin';
Bring a nickel; tap your feet.
You don't need a penny just to hang around,
But if you've got a nickel, won't you lay your money down?
Over on the corner there's a happy noise.
People come from all around to watch the magic boy.
Down On The Corner, out in the street,
Willy and the Poor boys are playin';
Bring a nickel; tap your feet.
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Turkey in the Straw – Traditional American folk song acoustic guitar, harmonica & vocal Jack Straw
This one is about as old as dirt! And if not that old at least the early 1800's. It has been done with many variations and various lyrics. This one can put the corn in corny! Got to love it! Turkey in the straw, haw, haw, haw...
Speaking of 'in the straw' (no pun intended)...there was this girl in Wisconsin she really like to roll around in straw with me and...Oops! forgot this was a kid's show. I mean, we used to like to stroll along the waterside hand in hand when the Harvest Moon shone bright. (You adults can go figure what we did in the straw! Haw haw haw!) Mmmm....I still like sody pop!
Lyrics:
As I was a-goin' down a hot dusty road
With a tired team and a heavy load
I cracked my whip and the leader sprung
I says day-day in the wagon tongue.
Turkey in the straw, haw, haw, haw
Turkey in the hay, hay, hay, hay
Roll 'em up and pad 'em down anyway at all,
Play ya a little tune called 'Turkey in the Straw'
I come to the river but I couldn't get across
So I paid five dollars for a blind ole hoss
Well, he wouldn't go forward and he couldn't stand still
So he went up and down like an old sawmill
Went out to milk but I didn't know how
I milked the goat instead of the cow
A monkey sittin' on a pile of straw
A-winkin' at his mother-in-law
I jump in the seat and give a little yell
The horses ran away bust the wagon all to hell
It's sugar in the gourd and honey in horn
Never been so happy since the day I was born
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Chicken Fry – Zac Brown acoustic guitar & vocal solo cover by Jack Straw
Chicken Fried is the hit single that put the Zac Brown Band on top of the Billboard Hot Country chart. Originally written in 2003 by Zac Brown and Wyatt Durrette, this feel-good country anthem was first recorded in 2003. It was later re-recorded and released in 2008 on their album The Foundation.
From my basement recordings collect made in June of 2013. Yea, it took a while to get to me but I was overseas at the time...
Oh just for the record, I released it on YouTube exactly 11 years & 1 min after recording the take. So you could say it was to the minute.
Lyrics:
You know I like my chicken fried
Cold beer on a Friday night
A pair of jeans that fit just right
And the radio up
Well I was raised up beneath the shade of a Georgia pine
And that's home you know
Sweet tea pecan pie and homemade wine
Where the peaches grow
And my house it's not much to talk about
But it's filled with love that's grown in southern ground
And a little bit of chicken fried
Cold beer on a Friday night
A pair of jeans that fit just right
And the radio up
Well I like to the sunrise
See the love in my woman's eyes
Feel the touch of a precious child
And know a mother's love
Well its funny how it's the little things in life that mean the most
Not where you live or what you drive or the price tag on your clothes
There's no dollar sign on a piece of mind this I've come to know
So if you agree have a drink with me
Raise you glasses for a toast
To a little bit of chicken fried
Cold beer on a Friday night
A pair of jeans that fit just right
And the radio up
Well I like to the sunrise
See the love in my woman's eyes
Feel the touch of a precious child
And know a mother's love
I thank god for my life
And for the stars and stripes
May freedom forever fly, let it ring.
Salute the ones who died
The ones that give their lives so we don't have to sacrifice
All the things we love
Like our chicken fried
Cold beer on a Friday night
A pair of jeans that fit just right
And the radio up
Well I like to the sunrise
See the love in my woman's eyes
Feel the touch of a precious child
And know a mother's love
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