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Count Your Chickens (Before They Hatch)
By Jeremy Lyons, p. Five Eighths Music, BMI
Count your chickens before they hatch
Count your chickens before they hatch
Count your chickens before they hatch
Then count them after that.
Collect on bets before the match
Eat your fish before the catch
An extra bunch with every batch
Even if those eggs don’t crack.
Well, if I’m spendin’ all my money
Anticipating milk and honey,
Tomorrow’s gray skies can look sunny.
Tell me, what’s wrong with that?
Count your chickens before they hatch
Count your chickens before they hatch
Count your chickens before they hatch
Then count them after that.
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Jerry The Junker
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Well I used to live down in New Orleans town with some crazy friends of mine
People come over for a barbeque dinner and drink lots o’ whiskey and wine
Sittin’ in the yard on a sunny afternoon, everybody’d be feelin’ great
But then people’d get loaded and trouble’d get started before it got too late.
Ref:
I think there’s gonna be a fight
I think there’s gonna be a fight
There’s gonna be a fight at the barbeque tonight.
Well, Mike went and got some good pork ribs, just fifty-nine cents a pound
Boiled them up before he put ‘em on the grill, so we don’t have to wait around
Augie said, “Hey, Miguel, what the hell you tryin’ to do?! You know you got to
slow-cook that pork!”
“I’ll slow-cook you!” Mike said, and turned red, as he poked Augie with a fork.
(Refrain)
Mike’s wife got on the negligee, with nothin’ underneath
Sittin’ there, swingin’ her legs wide open, don’t care what nobody sees
Ryan’s sittin’ down just a few feet away, grinnin’ and drinkin’ a brew
Mike says “Hey, my friend, if you move to the left, you get a much better view!”
(Refrain)
I went to Augie’s for a Thanksgiving dinner; Augie cooked up a great big ham,
But he’d been up drinking for two nights straight, and he just didn’t give damn
Augie started fussin’, barkin’ and cussin’; the room got very tense
He pulled down the table and stomped on the turkey, as I was jumpin’ over the fence.
(Refrain)
(Repeat first verse)
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In The Pines (My Gal)
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Louis Collins
02:56
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Some These Days
02:41
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Get Rhythm
03:02
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Hurricane Way
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Café Au Lait
03:39
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Way down in New Orleans,
That is the old Big Easy
Well, the coffee's really strong
And the food is really greasy
They eat the beignets
And drink the café au lait
Café
Café au lait
Café
Café Au Lait
Take the fine, French coffee
Grind it up from a bean
Put it and the water
In the coffee machine
Then what do you know?
You got a mean cup o' joe!
Café
Café au lait....
Take the real hot milk
Pour it in the bowl
At the very same time
Put in the espresso (the cup o joe)
If it comes out ok
You got the café
Café
Café au lait...
Way down in New Orleans,
That is the old Big Easy
Well, the coffee's really strong
And the food is really greasy
They eat the beignets
And drink the café au lait
Café...
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Catfish
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Restaurant Rag
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Waitin' For My Baby
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Sweet By and By
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Jeremy Lyons Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jeremy Lyons. Singer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader. Slide and finger-style guitarist. Once a staple of the New Orleans scene, he is now known more for his work with Vapors of Morphine and the Busted Jug Band as well as a local children's music performer and educator. This page features Jeremy's output with New Orleans' Deltabilly Boys and as a solo artist. There is more to come! ... more
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