Crawdad Song

During the first hundred years or so of united states history many communities allowed play parties as an acceptable form of social interaction.

Crawdad song. It is a variation on an older piece named sweet thing and is a tune written to accompany a play party. You get a line and i ll get a pole we ll go fishin in the crawdad hole honey baby mine. Workers building levees to prevent the flooding of the mississippi river in the south may have been among the first to sing it. Woody guthrie crawdad song the asch recordings vol.

Crawdad song you get a line and i ll get a pole honey you get line and i ll get a pole babe you get a line i ll get a pole we ll go down to the crawdad hole honey baby mine yonder comes a man with a sack on his back honey yonder comes a man with a sack on his back babe. 1962 flatt scruggs grand ole opry show. Sittin on the bank til my feet get cold honey. You get a line and i ll get a pole honey you get a line and i ll get a pole babe.

Provided to youtube by smithsonian folkways recordings crawdad song doc watson and clarence ashley original folkways recordings of doc watson and clarence. You get a line i ll get a pole honey you get a line i ll get a pole babe you get a line i ll get a pole we ll go down to the crawdad hole honey babe of mine wooh. This song evolved from anglo american play party traditions and african american blues. Levee building on the mississippi.

Lyrics to crawdad song by big bill broonzy. You get a line and i ll get a pole now honey you get a line and i ll get a pole babe you get a line and i ll get a pole.