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Bake That Chicken Pie
Traditional Old-Time, Song and Breakdown.
ARTIST: Uncle Dave Macon
Listen: Bake That Chicken Pie- Uncle Dave Macon
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes. DATE: Originally recorded in 1927.
RECORDING INFO: Jackson County Barn Owls. Home in West Virginia: West Virginia Project, Vol. 2, Old Homestead OHCS 177, LP (1987), cut# 8; Macon, Uncle Dave; & the/his Fruit Jar Drinkers. Nashville Early String Bands, Vol. 2, County 542, LP, cut# 13; County 542, Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - "Nashville: the Early String Bands, Vol. 2".
OTHER NAMES: Chicken Pie. Related To: "There's a Lock on the Chicken Coop Door."
SOURCES: Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc; Digital Tradition
NOTES: Uncle Dave's song was covered by Jackson County Barn Owls. For comparison listen to: Jackson County Barn Owls Both versions are edited for racial content.
BAKE THAT CHICKEN PIE- Uncle Dave Macon
Well, if you want to see a brother made happy, I'll tell you what to do,
Trip over to the neighbor's yard, there take down a chicken or two,
Why you slip around a dark night, when the chickens cannot see,
Gwine see that the bulldog's tied up, then peek up to the tree,
For you take a pole just to knock 'em off, then slap him like a goat,
Well if he hollers loudly, want shove 'em up under your coat,
Chorus: Bake that chicken, Lord put on lots of smiles,
Oh, Lord how I'd like to have just a piece of that chicken pie.
Well the pullets that flop their wings and crow, When the brother passes by,
Seems to say that they can't be caught, and there ain't no use for to try,
And worse than all that happens, yes that you ever hear like be- fore,
Whenever you go to travel you find, there's a lock on the chicken coop door.
Chorus
This country am gwine to the dogs at last, when the farmers sit and watch,
Big bull dog and a big steel trap in the watermelon patch,
And worse than all that happens, yes that you ever hear like be- fore,
Whenever you hear that er-e-er-er, there's a lock on the chicken coop door.
Chorus [twice]
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