Word: cookin
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...What's cookin', sister...
...What's cookin', sister...
...time, Grand Ol' Opry has coaxed out of the hills a great album of musty, hand-me-down folk songs. Some are fiddly old dances, like Tennessee Waggoner, Rabbit in the Pea Patch, Cross-Eyed Butcher, Give the Fiddler a Dram, Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County. Others, plaintive and plunky like Maple on the Hill, Brown's Ferry Blues, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, have gone on to wide juke-box favor. One recent find was a fine old Fundamentalist allegory called The Great Speckled Bird, probably inspired by Jeremiah...
...find while Mary does the cookin' she knows what she's lookin' for? She's looking for a bargain and it's right there in your store. While she's sweepin' up she's peepin' thro' some fashion page...
...authorities as is that of latterday liquefied bootlegging. In the court records of 1672, is an entry to the effect that "Edward Pelham, of the Class of 1673, coming by with a fowling piece in his hands, persuaded two boys to shoot a turkie sitting on Captain Cookin's fence." The remains were then wrapped in a coat and taken to Samuel Gibson's, where "it was dressed by his wife & baked in the oven, & in the night following it was eaten by Mr. Pelham, John Wise, and Jonathan Russell, studts." There are many other records, among them the tale...