{"id":472,"date":"2006-08-15T18:15:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/2006\/08\/15\/words-to-fall-river-hoedown\/"},"modified":"2006-08-15T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T22:15:09","slug":"words-to-fall-river-hoedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/words-to-fall-river-hoedown\/","title":{"rendered":"Words to Fall River Hoedown"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chad\"Aka “Fall River”, aka “Lizzie Borden”, aka “You Can’t Chop Your Poppa Up in Massachusetts”. Thanks to Digital Tradition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Transcribed from The Chad Mitchell Trio’s version from Mighty Day on Campus<\/em>, (1961):<\/p>\n

Fall River Hoedown (Lizzie Borden)
\n(Michael Brown)
\n(From Chad Mitchell Trio Recording)<\/p>\n

[Spoken]
\n One very exciting area of folk idiom and folk music to us has
\nalways been the hatchet murders in Massachusetts. I think that
\nthis quaint bit of suburban living can best be explained through
\nthe use of our poet laureate, Joe Frazier:<\/p>\n

[Spoken(Joe)]
\n Elizabeth Borden took an ax
\n And gave her mother forty whacks
\n And when the job was nicely done
\n She gave her father forty one!<\/p>\n

[Now the song]
\nYesterday in old Fall River, Mr. Andrew Borden died
\nAnd he got his daughter Lizzie on a charge of homicide.
\nSome folks say she didn’t do it, and others say she did
\nBut they all agree Miss Lizzie B. was a problem sort of kid<\/p>\n

‘Cause you can’t chop your poppa up in Massachusetts
\n Not even if it’s planned as a surprise
\n No you can’t chop your poppa up in Massachusetts
\n You know how neighbors love to criticize.<\/p>\n

She got him on the sofa where he’d gone to take a snooze
\nAnd I hope he went to heaven’ cause he wasn’t wearing shoes
\nLizzie kind of rearranged him with a hatchet, so they say
\nAnd then she got her mother in that same old-fashioned way,<\/p>\n

But you can’t can’t chop your momma up in Massachusetts
\n Not even if you’re tired of her cuisine
\n No, you can’t chop your momma up in Massachusetts
\n You know it’s almost sure to cause a scene.<\/p>\n

Well, they really kept her hoppin’ on that busy afternoon
\nWith both down and upstairs chopping while she hummed a ragtime tune:
\nThey really made her hustle and when all was said and done
\nShe’d removed her mother’s bustle when she wasn’t wearing one.<\/p>\n

Oh you can’t chop your Momma up in Massachusetts
\n And then blame all the damage on the mice,
\n No you can’t chop your Momma up in Massachusetts
\n That kind of thing just isn’t very nice.<\/p>\n

Now, It wasn’t done for pleasure and it wasn’t done for spite
\nAnd it wasn’t done because the lady wasn’t very bright,
\nShe’d always done the slightest thing that mom and dad had bid
\nThey said, “Lizzie cut it out! ” so that’s exactly what she did.<\/p>\n

But you can’t chop your poppa up in Massachusetts
\n And then get dressed and go out for a walk,
\n No, you can’t chop your poppa up in Massachusetts
\n Massachusetts is a far cry from New York.<\/p>\n

You can’t chop your poppa up in Massachusetts—<\/p>\n

[Shouted] Shut the door and lock and latch it
\n Here comes Lizzie with a brand new hatchet!<\/p>\n

You can’t chop your poppa up in Massachusetts—<\/p>\n

[shouted] Such a snob I heard it said,<\/p>\n

She met her pa and cut him dead!<\/p>\n

You can’t chop your poppa up in Massachusetts—<\/p>\n

[shouted] Jump like a fish, jump like a porpoise<\/p>\n

All join in in a habeas corpus.<\/p>\n

No, you can’t chop your poppa up in Massachusetts—
\nMassachusetts is a far cry from New York!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aka “Fall River”, aka “Lizzie Borden”, aka “You Can’t Chop Your Poppa Up in Massachusetts”. Thanks to Digital Tradition. Transcribed from The Chad Mitchell Trio’s version from Mighty Day on Campus, (1961): Fall River Hoedown (Lizzie Borden) (Michael Brown) (From Chad Mitchell Trio Recording) [Spoken] One very exciting area of folk idiom and folk music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borden-buzz","category-on-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}