Granny Will Your Dog Bite?

DESCRIPTION: "Chicken in the bread tray, Scratching out the dough, (Granny/Auntie) will your dog bite? No, chile, no." Other verses may also be about chickens or involve questions: "Auntie, will your oven bake?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: bird chickens food nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 158, "Chicken in the Bread Tray" (1 text)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 158, "Chicken in the Bread Tray" (1 tune plus a text excerpt)
Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric 181, "Chicken in the Bread Trough" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-OnTheTrailOfNegroFolkSongs, p. 194, (no title) (1 short text)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 109, "Chicken in the Bread Tray" (1 short text)
Killion/Waller-ATreasuryOfGeorgiaFolklore, p. 226, "Children's Quatrains" ("Chicken in de' bread tray") (1 short text)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Joseph D. Clarke, "Burke Davis as Folklorist," Vol. XIX, No. 2 (Mar 1971), p. 63, "(Folk Song)" (5 stanzas, probably representing multiple songs, beginning "Mamma pass the corn bread," "Chicken in the bread tray," "Oh, Nellie had a pair of shoes," "Ye living men come view the ground," "Eat the meat, gnaw the bone,"; the second is from "Granny Will Your Dog Bite?"; we file the first as "Mama Pass the Corn Bread" and the third as "Barefoot Nellie"; the last two are too short to file)
Roud #6389
RECORDINGS:
Floyd County Ramblers, "Granny, Will Your Dog Bite?" (Victor V-23759, 1930/Timely Tunes 1561)
File: Br3158

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