Track 22 - Hot Corn . . . Cold Corn

Track 22 – Hot Corn . . . Cold Corn

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I first heard the song song Hot Corn, Cold Corn in 1975 when I was teaching at Curtis Junior High School in Sudbury, Massachusetts. I was conducting a Foxfire seminar, and I asked two musicians from North Carolina, “Jeff and Jeff”, to come to Curtis to play traditional American folks songs as an extension of my seminar.

“Jeff and Jeff” were touring the country playing traditional American folk songs. They were gifted musicians, and they only played on hand-made instruments. They were very much in love with true American folk music.

The song “Hot Corn, Cold Corn” is about a community get-together, a “hoe down”, much like the ones we used to have in the upper-middle Tennessee region, when everybody came and pitched in. The preparation and the story-telling were the most memorable parts of the get-togethers for me, and the appearance by the traveling “circuit preacher” on horseback was a highly anticipated and important part of the event. Between the food, games, nipperkins, and general sharing of family and community, it was one of the few times when everyone’s differences and divisions took a back seat to community.

A nipperkin is a container for holding and drinking liquor or beer. It is called a demijohn in some parts of the world. “Ole Aunt Sal won’t ya fill it up again!”

NOTE: The cover art for this song is an original photo of my Uncle Pete’s moonshine still in Livingston, Tennessee.

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Hot Corn . . . Cold Corn (1:56)

 

Upstairs, downstairs . . . out in the kitchen . . . Upstairs, downstairs . . . out in the kitchen . . .

Upstairs, downstairs . . . out in the kitchen . . . That ole cook’s just a reelin’ and a pitchin’ . . . Yessir.

 

Hot corn, cold corn . . . bring along a nipperkin. Hot corn, cold corn . . . bring along a nipperkin.

Hot corn, cold corn . . . bring along a nipperkin. Fare thee well, a pretty girl to greet you in the morning . Yessir.

 

Old Aunt Sal won’t you fill it up again? Old Aunt Sal won’t you fill it up again?

Old Aunt Sal won’t you fill it up again . . . I ain’t had a drink since . . .  Lord knows when . . . Yessir.

 

Hot corn, cold corn . . . bring along a nipperkin. Hot corn, cold corn . . . bring along a nipperkin.

Hot corn, cold corn . . . bring along a nipperkin. Fare thee well, a pretty girl to greet you in the morning . . . Yessir.

 

All I want to make me happy . . . is two little boys . . . strong and snappy.

One name Paul and the other one Ed. One is lazy and the other half crazy . . . Yessir.

 

Hot corn, cold corn . . . bring along a nipperkin. Hot corn, cold corn . . . bring along a nipperkin.

Hot corn, cold corn . . . bring along a nipperkin. Fare thee well, a pretty girl to greet you in the morning . . . Yessir.

 

Preacher is a comin’ and the children are all fine.  Preacher is a comin’ and the children are all fine.

Preacher is a comin’ and the children are all fine . . .  Chicken necks a wringin’ and the toe nails a flyin’ . . .

Yessir.

 

Hot corn, cold corn . . . bring along a nipperkin. Hot corn, cold corn . . . bring along a nipperkin.

Hot corn, cold corn . . . bring along a nipperkin. Fare thee well, a pretty girl to greet you in the morning . . . Yessir.

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