I had the most wonderful Thanksgiving.
Every five years, k's extended family has a sort of Thanksgiving reunion. This was started up by my sister a while back - I think this year was the third or fourth one. It brings together assorted second cousins and removeds and such that used to assemble in Chicagoland, or out on "the Farm" in western Illinois, for holidays in k's childhood. Of course, these days their own kids and dogs and whatnot come along in tow.
We're pretty scattered now, so the 5-year thing was a stroke of genius on ksis's part. The locale moves around. This year they're back at the Farm.
Various and sundry health issues prevent k from attending these any more, although I did make one - ten years ago? - and had a blast. I greatly enjoy my own quiet (yet tasty) holidays, don't get me wrong, but I do miss seeing this sweet smart silly bunch in action. Good-looking, too, they are, every last one.
Naturally, certain traditions grew up around these extended-family events. Like the group use of kazoos. And the detailed recitals - often rather loudly - of occurrences from the past that you'd kind of hoped everyone had forgotten by now. Fortunately, this is done on a democratic basis.
The most enduring and most important tradition in these family get-togethers is the singing of a special song. It goes like this:
Well, it's hog calling time in Nebraska
Oh it's hog calling time in Nebraska
Yes it's hog calling time in Nebraska
And it's hog calling time in Nebraska.
The second verse is the same as the first except it's spoken. Really well spoken, by cuz A. the Presbyterian minister, who knows how to roll those words out. Solemn. Sincere. Emotive. Enunciated. Everyone else hums the tune in the background as Cuz lines out the words.
The third verse is the same as the first, including that everyone sings again this time. Putting heart and soul into it, especially at the end.
Where this thing came from is murky, lost in the mists of the past. But over the years they've really gotten it down.
And today, all 27 of the bunch treated k to a special cell phone rendition of Hog Calling Time in Nebraska. From the corn crib no less.
The best one I ever heard. Bar none.
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The way I learned it was thus:
"Oh when it's hog calling time in Nebraska,
When it's hog calling time in Nebraska,
Yes when it's hog calling time in Nebraska,
Well then it's hog calling time in Nebraska!"
The point of the lyrics with that variation in the last line being that, when it's hog calling time in Nebraska, well that's about all it is. Nothing more.
*GASP*
YOU know the Hog Calling Song TOO?!?
I was wondering if you might.
Back in 1993, my sister and I were out West for another cousin's wedding. We lived in Arcadia, California until I was 7. The Western cousins are first cousins, not seconds and removeds, and are the ones I first knew.
So while the wedding was in San Francisco, ksis and I went first to LA, and did a big Cousin Tour on our drive up to the Bay.
The Attila Hub was kind enough to lend us his apartment for the LA part of our stay. ksis and I rewarded him and Little Miss Attila with a singing of the Song. I blew the melody on the last bit, and we solemnly discussed the difficulty of the melodic change, and the need for steady practice. And the fact that these things get altered over time in any folk-type song.
It's certainly possible that the bunch had the words right and I wrote them down wrong. If so they may correct me if they read this.
Even if they've been blithely singing a not-quite-exact version of the words, I do believe, from long hard experience and thoughtful analysis, that the spirit of the song - that "when it's hog calling time in Nebraska, well that's about all it is. Nothing more." - as you described so well - that that essential spirit is both intuitively understood, and very well expressed, by this group of singers.
The Attila Hub told me afterward that the next day, LMA sang him the Song, herself. I suspect she has an actual real singing voice, as opposed to k's unseemly croak. The mental picture of Little Miss Attila singing the Hog Calling Song to the Attila Hub-to-be charmed my socks off.
Hee hee!
That's one of those tunes that, heard once, tends to rattle around the recesses of the cranium for decades, popping up now and again.
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