Long Shot — Origins of a rhyme

[DrHuk&Duck]

My great granny in North Carolina died years ago when I was in early high school. I lived with her and my grandparents one summer. She had full blown Alzheimer’s at the time, but she used to repeatedly say some rural rhyme that I’ve never gotten out of my head. I’m a little unsure of some spelling, but it went something like this:

Hee Haw Charlie Daw (or Dough)
Six plugs of tobacco he could chaw
Down in the valley on his knee
Grinning and a spitting any way he please.

I’ve tried to google search the lines and have always found nothing. Any ideas on how to find this? Maybe it was just a regional rhyme among kids…I don’t know.

 

[aleshanee]

My great granny in North Carolina died years ago when I was in early high school. I lived with her and my grandparents one summer. She had full blown Alzheimer’s at the time, but she used to repeatedly say some rural rhyme that I’ve never gotten out of my head. I’m a little unsure of some spelling, but it went something like this:

Hee Haw Charlie Daw (or Dough)
Six plugs of tobacco he could chaw
Down in the valley on his knee
Grinning and a spitting any way he please.

I’ve tried to google search the lines and have always found nothing. Any ideas on how to find this? Maybe it was just a regional rhyme among kids…I don’t know.

sorry.... no luck on the poem..... but i was looking at your avatar picture and that fish you are holding up.... ... and i realized we have antique dinner plates from an old seafood restaurant that look very similar to that fish...... .. there are 4 of them in a row - hanging above the shelves on one wall of our pantry....... when you mentioned your grandmother and i saw that avatar it reminded me of them... .. ....my dad said when he was a kid these plates were on the kitchen wall at his grandmothers house.... ... i don;t even know what kind of fish it is - but it;s kinda cool as a dinner platter..... i have always wanted to take them down and serve a fish and shrimp dinner on them some day.... ....but i don;t dare...

 

[DrHuk&Duck]

sorry.... no luck on the poem..... but i was looking at your avatar picture and that fish you are holding up.... ... and i realized we have antique dinner plates from an old seafood restaurant that look very similar to that fish...... .. there are 4 of them in a row - hanging above the shelves on one wall of our pantry....... when you mentioned your grandmother and i saw that avatar it reminded me of them... .. ....my dad said when he was a kid these plates were on the kitchen wall at his grandmothers house.... ... i don;t even know what kind of fish it is - but it;s kinda cool as a dinner platter..... i have always wanted to take them down and serve a fish and shrimp dinner on them some day.... ....but i don;t dare...

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That is a cool looking plate. The detail is amazing. I’m not sure if it’s the same fish, but now I’m really curious which species it is. The one in my pic is a redfish (aka drum fish). 99% of the time there’s a spot on the tail (sometimes many).