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Kevin Browne: Songs

Cornbread

(Kevin Browne)
April, 2008
by Kevin Browne

I still think fondly of Illinois and the corn fields were numerous in the Belleville area. I started playing these chords one day and singing the chorus and my brother Paul Browne was singing an echo. He gave me the “Mascoutah land” text. I think we are all still St. Louis Blues fans. I dealt frequently with allergies as a child and my third grade teacher sent my report card home with a comment about me wiping my nose on my shirt sleeves. A bit disgusting actually. Dad used to take us to a local pond and we would catch catfish and bluegill and then Mom would fry the fish. Cornbread around our house is still a favorite.

The background vocals were provided by Ryan Browne, Sheryl Olguin, Kalin Tenedeni and Greg Coleman. Ryan and Greg hammed it up on the last “that’s what he said”, which is what I wanted them to do. It was a lot of fun recording this track. I hope you enjoy it and thanks for listening.

I remember as a young boy in Illinois, running through the corn rows

Didn’t care much for those beans of soy, that pollen gave me a runny nose

(and he wiped it on the sleeves of his clothes)

 

-chorus-

Cornbread (cornbread), corn fed (corn fed), in Illinois (in Illinois?), that’s what I said (that’s what he said)…

 

I can see my brother in his white buck shoes marching in the band

We fell in love with the St. Louis Blues and corn on the cob off Mascoutah land

That was corn on the cob off Mascoutah land

 

-chorus-

 

And papa taught us how to catch catfish and mama’d fry ‘em up in a pan

We’d eat pork chops with applesauce, but the corn meal was always at hand

Now they wanna turn it all into ethanol and you know that really makes me mad

And I don’t want no pork from Iowa unless those pigs have been

 

Corn fed (corn fed), cornbread (cornbread), in Illinois (in Illinois?), that’s what I said (that’s what he said)…

Cornbread (cornbread), corn fed (corn fed), in Illinois (in Illinois?), that’s what I said (that’s what he said)…

 

Chords: G   D

               Em   G   A