Topic: Pork and Beans - Rosa Lee Hill

[bayrum78]

Rosa Lee Hill is now officially my favorite female country blues artist. Has anyone been able to decipher the 1st verse (repeated  2x) in its entirety?

[uncle bud]

Minnie is still tops for me but Rosa Lee Hill is great. Sounding good, Nate. Re. the verse, I don't hear it all but I get:

Mama's in the kitchen cookin' pork and beans
Said my daddy don't know [if she's runnin?? cypress?? green??]

Stuff in square brackets is mere incoherent approximations of the sounds.

[jpeters609]

I've always heard this (with an endearing mispronunciation of "submarines"):

"Mama's in the kitchen cookin' pork and beans / Daddy's on the ocean runnin' submarines."

[bayrum78]

That makes perfect sense Jp - I love your interpretation and thank you!!

[uncle bud]

I agree, Jeff, good ear. I hear that now pretty clearly.

[bayrum78]

Armed with the missing lyrical info,  I think I'm going to tighten this up a bit and repost.

[Rivers]

Wow, another submarine reference, added the 'formula' tag to keep it with the others. Or save some time and type 'submarine' into the search box top right.