I'm posting a song a day from the Rise Up Singing songbook, which you may or may not know. It's a pretty invaluable resource for song leaders, and useful for anyone who likes to sing in groups. The book doesn't include the melodies to the songs, just the lyrics and some chords, so I’m trying hard to find the tunes I don’t know, learn them, and post them on YouTube for anyone to learn. That’s where these videos are hosted; the blog is just pretty packaging.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Bouns: Groundhog
A song I learned off an album (a "twofer") called The Essential Doc Watson, which I picked up when I was 19 or 20, I guess. Sometime around then.
G D G - / - C G - / - D G - / - D G -
Shoulder up your gun and whistle up your dog
Shoulder up your gun and whistle up your dog
We're off to the woods for to catch a groundhog.
Oh, groundhog
Run here Sally with a ten foot pole (2x)
Gonna twist that whistle-pig out of his hole
Oh, groundhog
Here comes Sal with a snicker and a grin (2x)
Groundhog gravy all over her chin
I dug down but I didn't dig deep (2x)
There lay a whistle-pig fast asleep
Now there's meat in the cupboard and butter in the churn (2x)
If that ain't groundhog I'll be derned
Well you eat up the meat and you save the hide (2x)
The best darn shoestring ever was tied
Look at them fellers, they're about to fall (2x)
Gonna eat 'til their britches won't button at all
There's a little piece of cornbread a-layin' on the shelf (2x)
If you want any more, you can sing it yerself
And a verse I skipped:
Look at them fellers, they're a-goin' wild
They're gonna eat that hog before he's cooked or biled
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