Barnyard Jubilee
(Bob Nolan)
© 2004 by Calin Coburn
Refrain:
Rooster crowing, “Cock-a-doodle-oo-do!”
Old cow mooing, the pigs they chime in, too.
Tomcat meowing but he don’t mean no harm.
‘Cause the whole darn tribe, everything alive, had a shindig in the barn.
Well, I pulled the plug in my applejack[2] jug and I tipped her to the sky.
Took a hefty swig, started in to jig, I’m feeling mighty spry.
Then I heads for the barn with the jug in my arm for to hide it there, you see,
When I opened up the door, in the middle of the floor was a barnyard jubilee!
Well, I heads straight back to the kitchen shack for to put myself to bed.
I says, says I, “I think I’ll die, I’m a little tetched in the head.”
In the middle of the night, I got an awful fright, Mr. Devil called on me.
Then he hits me a smack and he takes me back to that doggoned jubilee.
The words were transcribed from the recording because we found no written music. The melody is similar to the traditional Chicken. Today it is taken for granted that Bob’s humorous songs were composed with Pat Brady in mind, but he wrote Barnyard Jubilee and Sky Ball Paint before Pat joined the Sons of the Pioneers.
[2] brandy distilled from fermented cider