KRAWDAD SONG
Created on 30/09/2002Latest update on 01/06/2026
Artist: Honeyboy & Sassafras
Author: traditional
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1930
Alias George Fields & Johnnie Welsh. Lullaby doubling as worksong among levee workers along the Mississippi river. Roud #4853, also as Pork Chops, Sweet Thing, Crowdad, Crowdad Man and Crowdad Hole.
Covers:
- 1930:
Darby & Tarlton [as Pork Chops for Columbia]
- 1933:
Girls Of The Golden West [as You Get A Line And I'll Get A Pole]
- 1933:
Lone Star Cowboys [as Crawdad Song]
- 1935:
Lulu Belle & Scotty [as Sugar Babe]
- 1939:
Leroy Martin [as Crawdad; John A. Lomax recording]
- 1951:
- 1951:
- 1952:
Smokey Hogg [as Crawdad]
- 1953:
Burl Ives [as Crawdad Song]
- 1954:
- 1957:
Big Bill Broonzy [as Crawdad]
- 1957:
Jerry Lee Lewis [for Sun; released in '70]
- 1961:
- 1962:
- 1962:
- 1980:
- 1993:
- 2022:
Valerie June [as Crawdad Song]
