If you say so

If you say so

: come_to_think; August 23rd, 2010

Current Mood:: contemplative

Current Music:: Most recently, Utah Phillips

Yesterday I was visiting someone and he told me he was seasoning a skillet in his oven, so I sang

I'm a goin' downtown,
Gonna buy me a sack of flour,
Gonna cook it every hour,
Keep my skillet good and greasy
All the time, time, time,
Keep my skillet good and greasy
All the time

I learned that almost 60 years ago. It ends

If you say so,
I'll never work no more,
Just lay around your shanty

All the time, time, time,...

The woman of his dreams will tell him not to work. Just like a man!

Tags: sexes, songs

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thnidu

2010-09-27 02:22 am (UTC)

I know that one (though with the ending part in 3rd person, not 2nd: "If she says so...")! Hearing it in my head as I read it. And "greasy" pronounced "greazy". Thanks for the memory.

come_to_think

2010-09-27 02:42 pm (UTC)

We had a vigorous folk tradition in my highschool (Putney, VT, 1950-1954). A lot of songs are attached in my mind to fellow students there & then.

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