FEUDIN' AND FIGHTIN'
>From the Broadway Revue "Laffing Room Only" (1945)
(Burton Lane / Al Dubin)


Jack Allen (Broadway Production) - 1945
Dorothy Shay (with Mischa Russell's Orch.) - 1947
Jo Stafford (with the Starlighters) - 1947
Bing Crosby & The Jesters (with Bob Haggart's Orch.) - 1947
Doris Day (Radio Transcript) - 1947
Studio Choir (feat. in the film "Feudin' Fussin' and a-Fightin'") - 1948
Bob Wills & the McKinney Sisters - 1948
Dorothy Collins (Radio Transcript) - 1958







As recorded by BING CROSBY & THE JESTERS:

Beyond the busy highway
A-beyond the city strife
We highly treasure 
And take great pleasure
In our plain way of life

Feudin', a-fussin' and a-fightin' 
Sometimes it gets downright excitin' 
Don't like them ornery neighbours down by the creek 
Well, we'll be plumb out of neighbours next week
 
Grandma, poor ol' grandma
Why'd they have to shoot poor grandma 
She lies 'neath the clover 
Seems they caught her bendin' over
A-reachin' for the money
 
Feudin', a-fussin' and a-fightin' 
This is a wrong that needs a-rightin' 
Let's get that funeral service over, so then
We'll go feudin' and fightin' again

(Feudin' and fightin' and a-fussin')
(That's all that's goin' on with us'n)
(We are such neighbourly people, peaceful and sweet) 
(All except when we happen to meet)
 
(Daughter, baby daughter)
(Poisoned all the neighbour's chickens) 
(Daughter shouldn't oughter) 
(At least 'till she could run like the dickens)
(They caught her at the crossroads) 

(Feudin' and fightin' and a-fussin')
(No use a-standin' here a-cussin') 
(Let's give our daughter a pistol now that she's four)
(And go feudin' and fightin' some more)

Ah, fightin' and a-feudin' and a-fussin'
What did that stranger want with us'n
He was a Revenue agent, yeah, he wasn't killed
The boys had to hide him in the still

(Liquor, mountain liquor)
(It's better now, it kicks you much quicker)
(Moonshine, mountain moonshine)
(Has a glow that gets you much sicker)
(We serve it with a clothesbrush)

Feudin' and fightin' and a-fussin' 
This ain't no place to be politin'
I load up my double-barrelled shotgun
I'm gettin' the yen
To go feudin' and a-fussin'
A-feudin' and a-fightin'
A-feudin' and a-fussin' again






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2013)