Papa's 'Bout to Get Mad

DESCRIPTION: Singer is lonesome since his lover left. He writes her a letter about the "cook" and a hen, who wouldn't lay eggs. If she doesn't lay "the cook's 'bout to get mad." "That cook has a great big axe." "Sweet mama, papa's 'bout to get mad."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1928 (recording, Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley)
KEYWORDS: loneliness warning separation nonballad lover chickens
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RECORDINGS:
Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley, "Papa's 'Bout to Get Mad" (Columbia 14336-D,1928; on USChartersHeroes)
File: RcPBtGMa

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