HAM AN' EGGS (Ledbetter)
Huddy "Leadbelly" Ledbetter & the Golden Gate
Quartet - 1940 Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group - 1957 Woody Guthrie; Sonny Terry &
Brownie McGhee; Woody Pines; Josh White; Sunday Skifflers; Ken Colyer's Skiffle
Group; Big Bill Broonzy; Rooftop Singers; Bourbon Skiffle Company; ........ and others.
As recorded by LONNIE
DONEGAN:
Ham and eggs, pork and beans
I would'a had had more, boys, but the cook was so mean
I'm gonna ro-o-oll, roll in a hurry, hurry, hurry
To make it on the side o' the road
If I had known my captain was blind
Wouldn't'a come to work, boys,
when the clock struck nine
I'm gonna ro-o-oll, roll in a hurry, hurry, hurry
To make it on the side o' the road
Ham & eggs, pork and beans
Would'a had more, but the cook was so mean
I'm gonna ro-o-oll, roll in a hurry, hurry, hurry
To make it on the side o' the road
If I had known my captain was bad
I wouldn't'a sold that special
that I once had had Ooh well,
gonna ro-o-oll, roll in a hurry, hurry, hurry
To make it on the side o' the road
Ham and eggs, pork and beans
Would'a had more, but the cook was so mean,
ah mean I'm gonna ro-o-oll, roll in a hurry, hurry, hurry
Oh, to make it on the side o' the road
Ham and eggs, pork and beans
Would'a had had more, boy, but the cook was so mean
I'm gonna ro-o-oll, roll in a hurry, hurry, hurry
Oh, to make it on the side o' the road Oh, to make it on the side o' the
road Oh, to make it on the side o' the road
(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2013)