{"id":7905,"date":"2015-03-01T07:28:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T11:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:48:11","slug":"the-crawdad-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7905","title":{"rendered":"The Crawdad Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Crawdad.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Crawdad.mp3\"> The Crawdad Song &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nMy wife, Camilla was telling me how her grandma loved to fish. She didn&#8217;t use a fancy rod and reel like Opie up there, just a cane pole, a short fishing line and a hook bated with a worm (my wife had to affix the worm). Grandma caught small fish and returned them to the water. I started singing this song that I learned at the Old Town School of Folk Music over 55 years ago. Camilla asked if I&#8217;d ever recorded it for the Folk Den and I realized that I had not. So here it is!<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[G] You get a line and I&#8217;ll get a pole honey<br \/>\nYou get a line and I&#8217;ll get a pole [D] babe<br \/>\n[G] You get a line and I&#8217;ll get a pole<br \/>\n[C] We&#8217;ll go down to the crawdad hole<br \/>\n[G] Honey [D] Baby [G] mine<\/p>\n<p>Yonder comes a man with a sack on his back, Honey,<br \/>\nYonder comes a man with a sack on his back, Babe,<br \/>\nYonder comes a man with a sack on his back,<br \/>\nGot more crawdads than he could pack,<br \/>\nHoney, Baby mine.<\/p>\n<p>What did the hen duck say to the drake, Honey,<br \/>\nWhat did the hen duck say to the drake, Babe,<br \/>\nWhat did the hen duck to the drake,<br \/>\nThere ain&#8217;t no crawdads in this lake,<br \/>\nHoney, Baby mine.<\/p>\n<p>Sittin&#8217; on the bank &#8217;til my feet get cold, Honey,<br \/>\nSittin&#8217; on the bank &#8217;til my feet get cold, Babe,<br \/>\nSittin&#8217; on the bank &#8217;til my feet get cold,<br \/>\nWatchin&#8217; that crawdad dig his hole,<br \/>\nHoney, Baby mine.<\/p>\n<p>What you gonna do when the lake runs dry, Honey,<br \/>\nWhat you gonna do when the lake runs dry, Babe,<br \/>\nWhat you gonna do when the lake runs dry,<br \/>\nSit on the bank watch crawdads die,<br \/>\nHoney, Baby mine.<\/p>\n<p>What you gonna do when the meal gives out, Honey<br \/>\nWhat you gonna do when the meal gives out, Babe<br \/>\nWhat you gonna do when the meal gives out<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll go visiting round about<br \/>\nHoney, Baby mine.<\/p>\n<p>Crawdad Crawdad better dig deep, Honey<br \/>\nCrawdad Crawdad better dig deep, Babe<br \/>\nCrawdad Crawdad better dig deep<br \/>\nFor I&#8217;m gonna ramble in my sleep<br \/>\nHoney, Baby mine<\/p>\n<p>Stuck my hook in a crawdad hole, Honey<br \/>\nStuck my hook in a crawdad hole, Babe<br \/>\nStuck my hook in a crawdad hole<br \/>\nCouldn&#8217;t get it out to save my soul<br \/>\nHoney, Baby mine<\/p>\n<p>Apple cider cinnamon beer, Honey<br \/>\nApple cider cinnamon beer, Babe<br \/>\nApple cider cinnamon beer<br \/>\nCold hog&#8217;s head and a possum&#8217;s ear<br \/>\nHoney, Baby mine<\/p>\n<p>What you gonna do when the meat&#8217;s all gone, Honey<br \/>\nWhat you gonna do when the meat&#8217;s all gone, Babe<br \/>\nWhat you gonna do when the meat&#8217;s all gone<br \/>\nSit in the kitchen and gnaw on a bone<br \/>\nHoney, Baby mine<\/p>\n<p>Repeat First Verse<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Crawdad Song &#8211; Click To Play My wife, Camilla was telling me how her grandma loved to fish. She didn&#8217;t use a fancy rod and reel like Opie up there, just a cane pole, a short fishing line and a hook bated with a worm (my wife &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Crawdad Song&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8874,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions\/8874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}