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Asa Martin & Jim Gaskin, vocals with guitar and mandolin - Hot Corn

from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 4: The Anglo​-​African Exchange by Field Recorders' Collective

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Well, upstairs, downstairs, out in the kitchen (3)
I met an old cook just a-raring and a-pitching, yes sir.

Chorus:
Hot corn, cold corn, bring along a demijohn (3)
Fare you well, my little gal, I’ll meet you in the morning, yes sir.

Preacher’s all a-coming, children all a-crying (3)
Chicken heads a-wringing and the toenails are flying, yes sir.

Children in the beehive, getting all the honey
Preacher in the pulpit, taking all the money
Aunt Susie shouting and singing for joy
Happiest lot of people that I ever saw, yes sir.

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from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 4: The Anglo​-​African Exchange, released August 7, 2023
Recorded by Mark Wilson and Gus Meade, Irvine, KY, 12/72. Previously unissued.

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