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What are they saying?

posted 19 years ago by appleski57
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In between the cornfield jokes, they all sang something, I could never understand what it was.........can you help me out? (All I heard was gibberish and sometimes that song/tune gets stuck in my head--help!!)

[–] Fasteddy1985 19 years ago

"Phhh! You Were Gone" was the song.

"Where oh where are you tonight?,
Why did you leave me here all alone?,
I searched the world over and I thought I found true love,
You Met another and PHH! you were gone"

Archie Campbell did a version that came out on a collection titled "Good Old Country Music Is Here To Stay"

[–] madammeowmeow 19 years ago

The song "Pickin' and Grinnin'" is the one I think you're referring to. I've always wondered what they were singing too. Sort of "yah yah yah yah yah" (1 2 and 3 4 rhthym for all you music geeks) CMT is showing episodes this weekend, so hopefully someone will figure it out.

[–] jwlefevre 19 years ago

I have always wondered what they were saying, too. I am watching the CMT marathon and I think I have figured out they are trying to sound like a banjo. Sounds something "dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang." That may not be right, but it sounds like a good explanation to me.

[–] Fasteddy1985 19 years ago

okay, i was thinking about an entirly different song. Yah the one you're talking about didn't realy have any words, it always went "Nah-nuck-Nuck, Nah-nuck-Nuck, Nah-nuck-nuck nuck-nuck-naw, Nah-nuck-Nuck, Nah-nuck-Nuck, Nah-nuck-nuck nuck-nuck-naw!"

[–] tdf5g 19 years ago

The song played during "Picking and Grinning" is called "Cripple Creek".

They didn't always sing the words, they usually just did a "dang-da-lang-dang-dang-dang" type of thing.

I saw an episode the other day on CMT and they did sing a verse:

Goin' up Cripple Creek, goin' in a run,
Goin' up Cripple Creek, to have a little fun,
Roll my britches to my knees, wade ol' Cripple Creek when I please

[–] LukeCoolHand 19 years ago

The words Buck and Roy sang on a real old show from 1970 were:
Going up Cripple Creek, gonna run
Going up Cripple Creek, to have some fun
Going up Cripple creek, going in a whirl
Going up Cripple creek, to see my girl

Or something real close to that.

[–] LurkingFigure 16 years ago

thank you so much for posting this!!! i have wondered about those lyrics for a while...

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[–] jeff82072 18 years ago

first of all funny last post was posted on my birthday second the song were oh wear are you tonight is song with one person facing camera and the other with their back turned and a sickle between them. The first sings a song in the same cadience as the chorus ending a joke that is sung if you will after the punch line the one person nudges the other awake and he/she turns around and sings the where oh where are you tonight part oo end it. The other is Gloom, despair and agony on me!/Deep dark depression, excessive misery!/If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all!/Gloom, despair and agony on me. If you want to see more go to the Wikipedia entry for Hee Haw.

This show was one of the best from a time when you could sit up and watch the TV with your kids.

I am watching the CMT marathon now and I am loving it.

[–] tdf5g 18 years ago

There were several regular songs that were performed on the show over the years such as mentioned here on this board.

The "I'm a pickin' and I'm a grinnin'" and "PHHTT You Were Gone" were featured throughout the entire run as well as I can remember, while others come and went.

But as far as the original question posted here, I don't remember a song of any kind ever being sung between the jokes in the cornfield.

By the way IMO Archie Campbell always sang the tenor harmony better than anyone else on "PHHTT You Were Gone".

[–] karawolf 10 years ago

Archie always harmonized. If Gordie had the lead and a celeb guest singer "slept", then they sang the melody in unison....I liked Archie better..

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[–] 1Doug1 18 years ago

They never did sing anything during the cornfield scenes. They just played instrumentals.

[–] bradford-1 14 years ago

Well, what was that routine where two cast members would slap at their thighs and chests in a kind of "hambone" rhthym and chant something that sounded like "Eeef, auff, eef, auff." and keep it up til it reached a fever pitch like a train gathering speed.
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[–] karawolf 10 years ago

I read elsewhere that they were Jackie Phelps and Jimmy Riddle...original beat-box?

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