Mr. Cutlets, what are your top five picks for meat-related song lyrics.
Meat in Song
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Fat Guy
, Nov 07 2003 09:48 AM
7 replies to this topic
#1
Fat Guy
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Posted 07 November 2003 - 09:48 AM
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#2
glenn
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Posted 07 November 2003 - 01:05 PM
While we're waiting, can I entertain you? These here are both written by everyone's favorite vegetarian, Weird Al Yankovic.
Hey, ooh, oh
One rule you all should obey
Eat from the four basic food groups everyday
Have bread, and vegetables too
Some dairy products, but whatever you do
Don't you forget about meat
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about meat
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Now, let me tell you 'bout the school cafeteria
It's got all the others beat
It sells over four million burgers a year
Just think, that's almost two pounds of meat
My ice cream sandwich is lukewarm
But my burrito is much too cold
You know, a school cafeteria is the only place
That serves artificially colored mold
You know, a school cafeteria believes in mass production
They buy those lousy soy beans by the keg
I don't like to complain, but in a school cafeteria
You can buy a taco and get Bubonic Plague
Today in the school cafeteria
They introduced a brand new malt
It's called boysenberry dyesentary
Pleas pass the salt
The tunafish sandwiches will make you ill
The enchiladas are enough to kill
Before you eat, you better make out your will
In the school cafeteria today
After 63 years in the business
Our cook still hasn't got the knack
And all the food in the school cafeteria
Comes in care packages that were sent back
Feel your arteries growing hard
As you eat another healthy spoonful of lard
It's no matter that the food is so gross
The health department is afraid to come close
So everybody better hold your nose
In the school cafeteria today
So listen very closely all you girls and guys
Here's a little message to the wives
You'd better not try the chili suprise
In the school cafeteria today
Oh yeah
In the school cafeteria today
Hey, ooh, oh
One rule you all should obey
Eat from the four basic food groups everyday
Have bread, and vegetables too
Some dairy products, but whatever you do
Don't you forget about meat
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about meat
------------------
Now, let me tell you 'bout the school cafeteria
It's got all the others beat
It sells over four million burgers a year
Just think, that's almost two pounds of meat
My ice cream sandwich is lukewarm
But my burrito is much too cold
You know, a school cafeteria is the only place
That serves artificially colored mold
You know, a school cafeteria believes in mass production
They buy those lousy soy beans by the keg
I don't like to complain, but in a school cafeteria
You can buy a taco and get Bubonic Plague
Today in the school cafeteria
They introduced a brand new malt
It's called boysenberry dyesentary
Pleas pass the salt
The tunafish sandwiches will make you ill
The enchiladas are enough to kill
Before you eat, you better make out your will
In the school cafeteria today
After 63 years in the business
Our cook still hasn't got the knack
And all the food in the school cafeteria
Comes in care packages that were sent back
Feel your arteries growing hard
As you eat another healthy spoonful of lard
It's no matter that the food is so gross
The health department is afraid to come close
So everybody better hold your nose
In the school cafeteria today
So listen very closely all you girls and guys
Here's a little message to the wives
You'd better not try the chili suprise
In the school cafeteria today
Oh yeah
In the school cafeteria today
#3
Mister_Cutlets
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Posted 07 November 2003 - 03:32 PM
I like it! Some day I plan to release an anthology record called "The Meaty Moods of Mr. Cutlets," which will include such meat-centric classics as
Pork Chops & Gravy -- The Ink Spots
Save the Bones for Henry Jones -- Nat Cole and Johnny Mercer
Pork Roll, Egg, and Cheese -- Ween
Gimme a Pigfoot -- Bessie Smith
Burger Man -- ZZ Top
and of course Constipation Blues, by Screaming Jay Hawkins, among others.
Your suggestions are welcome. The greatest meat song ever written, however, is surely "Burn Baby Burn" by The Dicatators, from the album D.F.F.D. Buy it!
Burn Baby Burn
I crave the flesh of the sacred cow
charred and dripping fat
I love the sight of a baby lamb
Spinning on the rack
I say, Burn!! Burn!!
Burn, Baby, Burn!!
My guitar player likes to knaw the bone
and suck the marrow out
He plays a Marshall stack twenty feet tall
and grills a porterhouse
I say, Burn!! Burn!!
Burn, Ross, Burn!!
[blazing guitar solo by Ross "the Boss" Funicello]
Plantkillers...Plantkillers.. Plantkillers try to rule my world
Plantkillers...Plantkillers.. Plantkillers try to rule my world
The grill's hot, my knives sharpened
Got a bass-o-matic
And a hunger pang
Why do the Sioux hunt the buffalo?
Why do they love the pig in Spain?
Why do the big fish eat the small?
Why do we even have to eat at all?
Cause,
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on......
Look at me now
Look at me now
Look at me now
I'm on top of the food chain...
I am the carnivore
I am the omnivore
I am the matador
That's what my teeth are for!!
Burn!!
Burn baby Burn!!
Burn baby Burn!!
Burn baby Burn!!
Burn baby Burn
Words and Music by Andy Shernoff
Pork Chops & Gravy -- The Ink Spots
Save the Bones for Henry Jones -- Nat Cole and Johnny Mercer
Pork Roll, Egg, and Cheese -- Ween
Gimme a Pigfoot -- Bessie Smith
Burger Man -- ZZ Top
and of course Constipation Blues, by Screaming Jay Hawkins, among others.
Your suggestions are welcome. The greatest meat song ever written, however, is surely "Burn Baby Burn" by The Dicatators, from the album D.F.F.D. Buy it!
Burn Baby Burn
I crave the flesh of the sacred cow
charred and dripping fat
I love the sight of a baby lamb
Spinning on the rack
I say, Burn!! Burn!!
Burn, Baby, Burn!!
My guitar player likes to knaw the bone
and suck the marrow out
He plays a Marshall stack twenty feet tall
and grills a porterhouse
I say, Burn!! Burn!!
Burn, Ross, Burn!!
[blazing guitar solo by Ross "the Boss" Funicello]
Plantkillers...Plantkillers.. Plantkillers try to rule my world
Plantkillers...Plantkillers.. Plantkillers try to rule my world
The grill's hot, my knives sharpened
Got a bass-o-matic
And a hunger pang
Why do the Sioux hunt the buffalo?
Why do they love the pig in Spain?
Why do the big fish eat the small?
Why do we even have to eat at all?
Cause,
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on......
Look at me now
Look at me now
Look at me now
I'm on top of the food chain...
I am the carnivore
I am the omnivore
I am the matador
That's what my teeth are for!!
Burn!!
Burn baby Burn!!
Burn baby Burn!!
Burn baby Burn!!
Burn baby Burn
Words and Music by Andy Shernoff
Mr-Cutlets.com: your source for advice, excerpts, Cutlets news, and links to buy Meat Me in Manhattan: A Carnivore's Guide to New York!
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TrishCT
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Posted 07 November 2003 - 03:46 PM
On the C & W front there's a tune by Tom T. Hall called Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs? 'Bout a wife who walks out on her hubby durin' hog feedin' time... Gee wonder why she walked out....
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Janedujour
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Posted 07 November 2003 - 03:52 PM
Was it Hall and Oates? "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of meat with you..."
JANE
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MatthewB
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Posted 07 November 2003 - 03:52 PM
Willie Bobo recorded quite a few "food songs."
For instance, there's "Fried Neck Bones and Some Homefries."
And don't forget the album cover for "Spanish Grease."
For instance, there's "Fried Neck Bones and Some Homefries."
And don't forget the album cover for "Spanish Grease."
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Pan
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Posted 07 November 2003 - 04:13 PM
I love Gimme a Pigfoot!
A lot of the early jazz artists recorded songs with food titles, such as Struttin' with some Barbecue (recorded by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five). Other food titles from Hot Five albums:
Big Butter and Egg Man, Cornet Chop Suey.
If you check The Red Hot Jazz Archive, you can find a whole bunch of titles - many of them links to RealAudio files - of jazz up to the 1930s or so. These Louis Armstrong titles and RealAudio files for them can be found here.
Blanco and Blanco have a show devoted to jazz and popular music from the first three decades of the 20th century on WNYE-FM in New York. Looking here, it seems like they've been reduced to only one hour, on Mondays and Tuesdays, but their show used to be a couple of hours long, and they once devoted an entire show to songs about chicken.
A lot of the early jazz artists recorded songs with food titles, such as Struttin' with some Barbecue (recorded by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five). Other food titles from Hot Five albums:
Big Butter and Egg Man, Cornet Chop Suey.
If you check The Red Hot Jazz Archive, you can find a whole bunch of titles - many of them links to RealAudio files - of jazz up to the 1930s or so. These Louis Armstrong titles and RealAudio files for them can be found here.
Blanco and Blanco have a show devoted to jazz and popular music from the first three decades of the 20th century on WNYE-FM in New York. Looking here, it seems like they've been reduced to only one hour, on Mondays and Tuesdays, but their show used to be a couple of hours long, and they once devoted an entire show to songs about chicken.
