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    I really want to learn this song, but I've only heard it once and then by someone who was trying to remember it. I've got the lyrics. Does anyone know the chords? Also, does anyone know someplace with a free sound file of it? I could really use a second or third listen.
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    Katie

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    Steve Goodman recorded it.
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    Great song Katie. Try to find the recording of Martin Bogan and Armstrong playing it. It is the Title cut of there first LP together.

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    Bill Hinkley and Judy Larson (try Goooogle) have don that tune for many, many years.




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    I helped Evy Mayer record Barnyard Dance on her CD Humor Me a few years ago; here's a link to info about it on her "ukelady" website.

    Jay Ungar wrote a neat second verse:

    "Oh, the Indian corn put the red dress on,
    The Chinese cabbage tried to kick the gong;
    You should have seen the French green bean,
    When the chili pepper danced with the black-eyed pea!
    But Big Zucchini, he was a meanie,
    He picked a fight with a kosher weenie;
    He said, 'No meat allowed, this is a vegetable crowd,'
    Down at the barnyard dance, this morning,
    Down at the barnyard dance."

    Note the different nationalities of veggie mentioned in the first couple of lines, and the reference to the Big Zucchini Washboard Bandits, a group from the '80's (still around? I wonder.).
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    Here are the chords we use, I wouldn't guarantee they are the standard though. My favorite version of this is by the Laketown Buskers, a former, great, Chicago group.

    I can't get the chords to line up correctly with the lyrics when I post this, hopefully you can hear where the changes go.

    BARNYARD DANCE


    F C F C
    Late last night by the pale moonlight
    G7 C
    All the vegetables gave a spree
    F C F C
    They put out a sign there’s dancing at nine
    D7 G7
    And all the admission was free.
    F C F C
    There were peas and greens, and cabbage and beans
    G7 C
    It was the biggest crowd you’d ever seen
    A7
    And when old man cucumber struck up his number,
    D7 G7
    You shoulda heard the vegetables scream.

    A7
    Well little turnip top did the backwoods flop
    D7
    The cabbage shook the shimmy and she couldn’t stop
    G7
    The little red beet shook his feet
    C [no chord]
    And the watermelon died of the cockeyed heat
    A7
    Red tomata, the agitator,
    D7
    shook the shimmy with the sweet potata.
    F F#O C A7
    And old man garlic dropped dead of the colic
    D7 G7 C
    Down at the Barnyard Dance.



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