“How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?”
Description
"How many biscuits can you eat, this mornin', this mornin'? (x2) Forty-nine, and a ham of meat, this mornin'." Discussion of food, work, etc., with many floating verses ("Ain't no use me workin' so hard," "If you get there before I do").
Notes
This is pretty definitely built about "Crawdad," or one of its relatives, and manages to be even sillier than that silly song. But it's been recorded enough that I finally decided it went in the Index. - RBW
Same tune
- Crawdad (File: R443)
Cross references
- cf. "Crawdad" (tune)
Recordings
- Dr. Humphrey Bate & his Possum Hunters, "How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?" (Brunswick 232, 1928)
- Gwen Foster, "How Many Biscuits Can I Eat" (Bluebird B-8082/Montgomery Ward M-7859 [as "How Many Biscuits Can You Eat"], 1939)
- Grandpa Jones, "How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?" (King 740, 1948)
- Pickard Family, "How Many Biscuits Can You Eat" (Coast 253, n.d.)
References
- Roud #7876
- BI, RcHMBCYE