Aunt Carrie's dinner (lyrics not sung)

Collected by Irene Carlisle Transcribed by Nathaniel Lucy Recited by Annie Cagle Woolsey, Arkansas June 20, 1951 Reel 131, Item 3 Aunt Carrie’s Dinner When we go to Aunt Carrie’s, She says “Ain’t had time To fix a dinner like it ought to be” Because she has been at work since six o’clock A-sweeping out the rooms And tidying up the place a lot And if we’re hungry, she presumes We’ll have to take just what she’s got And then she says she ain’t the one To try to put on city style She likes relations just runnin’ from me And once in a while And being content in what is took A simple country dinner so If anything is overlooked It’ll have to be excused, you know And then she goes and shuts the door And leaves that where the table is Then Paul, he says he glad he’s wore That country appetite of his And Aunt Carrie tells us to come on Although there’s nothing fit to touch But we can eat until it’s gone But she knows it isn’t much And there is chicken, young ones fried And there’s a juicy big ball ham There’s lots of gravy on each side And turnips and blackberry jam Thirty biscuits, just a lot And Quince deserves to pick his two And mashed potatoes just as white And dandy pickles I tell youBeans and peas and corn and rice And cherries, sweet and red Quince was early, was told twice But they’re fine on Aunt Carrie’s bread Pie, three kinds, pies and cake And apple jelly is the best You ought to see it shake and shake And goodness I forgot the rest Then we all eat til we can’t hold Another little bite you bet And then Aunt Carrie she was cold And says she knows we’re hungry yet And then Paul he set his dish A meal it’d surely been most joyous And says he wondered how we’d feel If she had been expecting usFunding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation