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Pumpkin Pie/Punkin Pie/
Traditional Old-Time Song; Breakdown. North Carolina; USA
ARTIST: Joe and Odell Thompson.
Listen: Pumpkin Pie- Carolina Chocolate Drops
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
DATE: 1800s-Early 1900s; According to Bob Carlin- the Thompson's "Pumpkin Pie" can be traced back to the earliest day of minstrelsy (whatever that means- haha) Recorded 1980s
RECORDING INFO: Pumpkin Pie
At - Indian Pumpkin Pie
Gerkens, Lala. South Dakota Fiddling Contest, Foss, LP (1978), trk# A.11
Thompson, Joe. Family Tradition, Rounder 2161, CD (1999), trk# 8
Thompson, Joe; and Odell Thompson. Oldtime Music from the North Carolina Piedmont, Global Village C 217, Cas (1989), trk# 11
Carolina Chocolate Drops- Pumpkin Pie-
RELATED TO:
OTHER NAMES: "Punkin Pie" "Indian Pumpkin Pie"
SOURCES: Folk Index
NOTES: Fiddle tune with some incidental lyrics from black string band musicians Joe and Odell Thompson. Recorded in 1980s. Carolina Chocolate Drops learned the song from Joe Thompson and you can hear their live version- lyrics hard to understand.
PUMKIN PIE- Joe and Odell Thompson [lyrics incomplete]
(Fiddle & banjo)
We got *cookin',
We got cookin',
We got cookin', pumpkin pie.
I got,
I got cookin', pumpkin pie.
(Fiddle & banjo)
PUMKIN PIE- Carolina Chocolate Drops- 2009
Listen: Pumpkin Pie [lyrics incomplete]
We got cookin',
We got cookin',
We got cookin', pumpkin pie.
Aha just told me a lie.
[Dance calls]
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