We're Gonna Have Weather
(Whether or Not)
Wendell Hall
Brunswick, 1925
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This song has an element so often missing in modern songwriting:
Delaware. Perhaps it simply hasn't yet occurred to our contemporary troubadours
that "Delaware" rhymes with "underwear."This is a lousy sound file. Apologies. The record is cracked halfway through, and I'm a novice at retouching these things. Don't care. This is one of my very favorites. This is crank it up and roll down the windows and give the homeboys a laugh good.
I particularly draw your attention to the goofy sound effects between verses. Including an unsettling and distinctly uncomic cougar...growl. Hiss. Thing. What do you call that scary growly-hissy cougar thing, anyway?
Some are pushed and some are not.
The weather, too, does funny things:
Winter falls and Summer springs.
Whether it's cold or whether it's hot,
We're gonna have weather, whether or not
So, whether we'll get the weather we've got,
We're gonna have weather, whether or not.
How to tune a uke, I never knew
The strings are tee and tay and too
But one string I can never tell
I think it's M but it sounds like L
Whether it's cold or whether it's hot,
We're gonna have weather, whether or not
So, whether we'll get the weather we've got,
We're gonna have weather, whether or not.
Got a one long Ford that's built for speed
There ain't nothing she don't need
Ain't nothing left but a pile of tin
It's a darn good tin for the shape it's in.
Whether it's cold or whether it's hot,
We're gonna have weather, whether or not
So, whether we'll get the weather we've got,
We're gonna have weather, whether or not.
I laughed so hard I thought I'd bust
When our hen found fresh sawdust
When sister hen she had some eggs
All the little chicks had wooden legs.
Whether it's cold or whether it's hot,
We're gonna have weather, whether or not
So, whether we'll get the weather we've got,
We're gonna have weather, whether or not.
A monkey hanging from a limb
Watching him knows where to swim
A crocodile came up for air
Now there ain't no monkey there.
Whether it's cold or whether it's hot,
We're gonna have weather, whether or not
So, whether we'll get the weather we've got,
We're gonna have weather, whether or not.
Oh, there's a man in Delaware,
He don't wear no underwear.
He has got a gal named Sue.
It's funny 'cause she don't wear none, too.
Whether it's cold or whether it's hot,
We're gonna have weather, whether or not
So, whether we'll get the weather we've got,
We're gonna have weather, whether or not.