Feudin’ And Fightin’

A popular song from 1947.
Words by Al Dubin and Burton Lane.
Music by Burton Lane.


Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

Beyond the busy highway
Beyond the city strife
We highly treasure and take great pleasure
In our plain way of life
Along the pleasant byways
Beneath a friendly sky
No courthouse capers
We don’t serve papers to trim some other guy
Our troubles never stick
We get them over quick

Refrain
Feudin’ and Fussin’ and a-Fightin’
Sometimes it gets to be excitin’
Don’t like them ornery neighbors down by the creek
We’ll be plumb out of neighbors next week
Grandma, poor ol’ grandma
Why’d they have to shoot poor grandma
She lies ‘neath the clover
Someone caught her bending over
Pickin’ up a daisy
Feudin’ and Fussin’ and a-Fightin’
This is a wrong that needs a rightin’
Let’s get that funeral service over
So then we can start in a-Feudin’ again

Refrain
Feudin’ and Fightin’ and a-Fussin’
That’s all that’s goin’ on with us’n
We are such neighborly people, peaceful and sweet
All except when we happen to meet
Daughter, baby daughter
Poisened all the neighbors chickens
Daughter hadn’t oughter
Least ’til she could run like the dickens
They hit her with a shovel
Feudin’ and Fightin’ and a-Fussin’
No use a-standin’ here a-cussin’
Let’s give our daughter a pistol now that she’s four
And go Feudin’ and Fightin’ some more


Sung here by Vancha March: