“Home Brew Rag”
Description
"Well, I've never been drunk but about one time, And it think it was on home brew; If you ever drink any brew yourself, You know just what it'll do.... Ick-poo, home brew, We know what we'll do." The singer proposes a little drink to test the brew
Supplemental text
Home Brew Rag
Complete text(s)
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As recorded by the Roanoke Jug Band, OKeh 45393, recorded October 18,
1929. Reissued on The New Roanoke Jug Band, "Play It for a Long Time,"
Copper Creek CCCD-2003.
(Recording opens with fiddle breaks, then a conversation in which
bands members Ray Barger, Billy Altizer, and others meet and
share brew.)
Well, I've never been drunk but about one time,
And it think it was on home brew;
If you drink any brew yourself,
You know just what it'll do.
Think I'll go home now
And make me a barrel or two.
Ick-poo, home brew,
You know just what it'll do.
Come on, boys, I've made my brew
And I hope you'll say it's good.
If it isn't what it should be,
I've done the best I could.
Come on, boys, let's have a little drink
And see what it will do.
Ick-poo, home brew,
You know just what it'll do.
Recordings
- Roanoke Jug Band, "Home Brew Rag" (OKeh 45393, 1929)
- Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians, "Home Brew Rag" (Columbia 15241-D)
References
- ST RcHoBreR (Full)
- BI, RcHoBreR