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- [Voiceover] The following program
is a production of Pioneer Public Television.
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- [Voiceover] Funding for this program
has been provided by
the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
through a vote of the people of Minnesota
on November 4th, 2008.
(fast banjo)
- [Voiceover] Grass Land Jam
recorded during the annual Minnesota Bluegrass
and Old Time Music Festival at El Rancho Manana
near Richmond, Minnesota.
(banjo music)
Grass Land Jam showcases
the main stage performances
presented during the four day festival
by regional and national bands.
Now from the main stage,
from New Orleans Louisiana,
The Drunken Catfish Ramblers.
♪ Listen everybody from near and far
♪ You wanna know just who we are
♪ (unclear)
♪ From Tennessee
♪ Well if you like the way we play
♪ Listen while we try to say
♪ (unclear)
♪ From Tennessee
♪ Well all night long
♪ We play this song
♪ You get this song
♪ You can't go wrong
♪ And how
♪ We'll make you loose
♪ We'll make ya tight
♪ We'll make you shake it
♪ Til the broad daylight
♪ (unclear)
♪ From Tennessee
♪ We never do brag
♪ And we never do boast
♪ We play this tune from coast to coast
♪ (unclear)
♪ From Tennessee
♪ If you like this tune
♪ You think it's fine
♪ Sit right down and drop a line
♪ (unclear)
♪ From Tennessee
♪ Well I declare
♪ You get it there
♪ And if we have
♪ Some time to spare somewhere
♪ Sometimes we're down your way
♪ We'll drop in and spend the day
♪ (unclear)
♪ From Tennessee
♪ Yo di dee do do
♪ Yo do di do di do
♪ Yo do di do di di do do
♪ Yo do do do do
♪ Yo di dee do do
♪ Yo do do dee doo dee doo
♪ Well some wanna know just what we got
♪ We got good hokum
♪ And we serve it hot
♪ (unclear)
♪ From Tennessee
♪ We ain't good lookin'
♪ And we don't dress fine
♪ The way we whip it is a hangin' crime
♪ (unclear)
♪ From Tennessee
♪ And if you see me stealing
♪ Don't you tell on me
♪ I'm stealing back to
♪ My used to be and how
♪ We never have one gal at a time
♪ We always have seven eight or nine
♪ (unclear)
♪ From Tennessee ♪
(audience applauds)
- Thank you.
(banjo solo)
(mid tempo country music)
(audience applauds)
- Thank you.
♪ Well boys there is a gal you hate
♪ But you won't take her home
♪ That could be the very one
♪ To make you sing this song
♪ Won't you go
♪ It is so good
♪ Whoa it is so good
♪ Well it won't be sugar
♪ But it will be sweet
♪ And it'll make you think
♪ That it's good enough for eatin'
♪ Oh it is so good
♪ Oh it is so good
♪ It's so good
♪ Just good as it can be
♪ Well I'd always been a hard poor man
♪ Didn't have enough for him to do
♪ I went home 'bout one last night
♪ She made me sing this tune
♪ You know it is so good
♪ Oh it is so good
♪ Well it ain't no bee
♪ It ain't got no wing
♪ You find the right kind
♪ It's gonna make you sing
♪ It is so good
♪ Whoa it is so good
♪ It's so good
♪ Just good as it can be
♪ I told my Daddy about it one day
♪ He said boy you ought to be shamed
♪ He went home with one last night
♪ And she made him sing
♪ Oh you know it is so good
♪ Oh it is so good
♪ I don't want no coffee
♪ Don't want no tea
♪ Because the gal I been lovin'
♪ Is good enough for me
♪ It is so good
♪ Oh it is so good
♪ It's so good
♪ Just good as it can be ♪
(audience applauds)
- [Man] Thank you.
- OK (unclear) rag.
(fast fiddle)
(upbeat country music)
(audience applauds)
- Thanks, everybody.
- [Voiceover] Up next,
The Volo Bogtrotters.
(fast country music)
(audience applauds)
- Thank you very much, folks.
(mid tempo country music)
♪ Going up fifth street come down Main
♪ Try to make a living for buying ***
♪ *** gonna kill my honey dead
♪ Tell it to me
♪ Tell it to me
♪ Drink corn liquor
♪ Let your *** be
♪ *** gonna kill my honey dead
♪ Well I sniff ***
♪ Sniff it in the wind
♪ Doc said it'll kill me
♪ But didn't say when
♪ ***'s gonna kill my honey dead
♪ Tell it to me
♪ Tell it to me
♪ Drink corn liquor
♪ Let your *** be
♪ *** gonna kill my honey dead
♪ Sniff ***
♪ It's goin' all night
♪ Sniff ***
♪ If it takes my life
♪ *** gonna kill my honey dead
♪ Tell it to me
♪ Tell it to me
♪ Drink corn liquor
♪ Let your *** be
♪ *** gonna kill my honey dead
♪ Well all you rounders think you're tough
♪ Feed your women on bread and snuff
♪ *** gonna kill my honey dead
♪ Tell it to me
♪ Tell it to me
♪ Drink corn liquor
♪ Let your *** be
♪ *** gonna kill my honey dead
♪ Tell it to me
♪ Tell it to me
♪ Drink corn liquor
♪ Let your *** be
♪ *** gonna kill my honey dead ♪
- Just say no.
(laughing)
(country music)
(audience applauds)
(fast fiddle)
♪ I've got a gal so long and tall
♪ Sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall
♪ But how long babe how long
♪ Ain't no use to be workin' so hard
♪ I've got a gal and a rich folk jar
♪ She kills chickens
♪ Sends me the head
♪ Thinks I'm workin'
♪ I'm sleepin' in bed
♪ How long babe how long
♪ I've got a gal all dressed in red
♪ When she goes she gonna kill me dead
♪ How long babe how long
♪ I've got a gal all dressed in blue
♪ When she dies she's gonna take me too
♪ But how long babe how long
♪ I've got a gal all dressed in white
♪ When she goes she's gonna be all right
♪ Said how long babe how long
- How long, boys?
♪ I got a wife and a bulldog too
♪ The wife don't love me
♪ But the bulldog do
(howls)
♪ Said how long babe how long
♪ I got a wife and a bulldog too
♪ The wife don't love me
♪ But the bulldog do
♪ Said how long babe how long
♪ Said how long babe how long ♪
(audience applauds)
- Ah thank you, music lovers.
(upbeat country music)
♪ In sad despair I wander
♪ My heart is filled with woe
♪ In my grief I ponder
♪ What to do I don't know
♪ My cruel fate told me to frown
♪ The trouble seems to be
♪ There is a feller in this town
♪ And he looks just like me
♪ Oh wouldn't I like to catch him
♪ Wherever he may be
♪ Oh wouldn't I burst his pumpkin head
♪ That feller that looks like me
♪ One day I went to see a girl
♪ I was going to take her out
♪ When a lady tapped me on the arm
♪ Saying how's your wife old Brown
♪ (unclear) I said I'm a single man
♪ And married I long to be
♪ They called me a swindler
♪ And kicked me out
♪ For the feller that looked like me
♪ Oh wouldn't I like to catch him
♪ Wherever he may be
♪ Oh wouldn't I burst his pumpkin head
♪ That feller that looks like me
♪ One night I went out to a ball
♪ I was just enjoying the sport
♪ When a police grabbed me by the arm
♪ You're wanted down in court
♪ You escaped us once but this here time
♪ I'll see you don't get free
♪ He dragged me off locked me up in jail
♪ For the feller that looked like me
♪ Oh wouldn't I like to catch him
♪ Wherever he may be
♪ Oh wouldn't I burst his pumpkin head
♪ That feller that looks like me
♪ I was tried next day and found guilty
♪ And I was about to be taken down
- [Voiceover] Thank you for watching
Grass Land Jam.
Join us next time for more bluegrass
and old time music.
- [Voiceover] Funding for this program
has been provided by
the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
through a vote of the people of Minnesota
on November 4th, 2008.
♪ Wherever he may be ♪