Who Broke the Lock (on the hen house door)?
“A song Riley Puckett taught me to love” Lew Dite with his banjo uke. The last two verses are my own words.
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Love it 5*
Thank you.
Great little song!
poop
Thats great man i love it :o)
Ggollee I like your little dittys as my dad used to call little songs like
this.5*****
The Girls of the Golden West (Millie and Dolly Good) sang this song on the
Rudy Vallee radio show in 1935.
Great! Ww used to have this record by H.M. Barnes and his Blue Ridge
Ramblers, a 78 on the Brunswick label. I loved it, but sadly it got broken
years ago. If you can get hold of a copy, its worth hearing. Thanks for
sharing.
I’ve been watching your videos for some time, and have always enjoyed them.
This one is great, and you seemed to have a lot of fun with it. Thanks for
sharing your talent! Consider this one “favorited”.
ROFL
OUTSTANDING!! ***** I loved it!!!
I wanted to thank you for sharing this song. My grandfather, who passed two
years ago, used to sing this song. I remember asking him about this song
and he smiled, but was unable to give me the lyrics. Thank you…
Thanks for the background.
Not me, it was like that when I got here. Nice work Lew, 5 stars.
Mostly from old recordings. Ever since CD’s came on the market digital
recordings have been able to clean up the pops and crackles of old 78
recordings and make them available once again to anyone who wants to take
the time to search them out. I have done this for years.
I’ll be darned, Lew! I didn’t think anyone else knew this song. Tony and
Juanita used to sing it on a Portland, Maine radio station. Thanks for
keeping these old songs alive. …Bill
Great Song, check out the thirtees(?) recording of Curley Weaver and the
Georgia Browns doing it, my favorite version. Thanks man!
This song has very deep roots. It was a hit song recorded by “white” and
“black” artists on cylinders in the 1890s. It was apparently an answer song
to the 1880s song “Dars A Lock On De Chicken Coop Door” by Sam Lucas, who
was about the third best-known “black” songwriter in the U.S., and had
begun playing guitar in the 1860s.