Sweet Little Baby, She's My Hotdog Bun

That's right, I'm gettin obscure over here: Come Along by Salty Dog



Fantastic no?

Really though, I've been wanting to share this with everyone for a while, but getting new strings on my guitar kinda reminded me of it.

Lemme 'splain: I put new strings on the other night, but I wasn't digging their gauge very much, they were too thin and made the guitar sound all... girly and cold or something. Sooo, I decided this morning to put some thicker ones on, since I had two packs.


The two packs came in handy since I flamin' broke the 1st E string... I don't really know what I was thinkin'- my dad asked if I thought there was gonna be some magic moment where I would know not to twist anymore. Maybe so. :P


ANYWAY, when I put on one of the thicker strings and was getting it in tune, I hit a note that I swear was just like the little warmup bass part at the beginning of this video.

So, now I have 10-11-16-24-36-46 on my guitar. Very strange. Whereas if I had a complete set of the right ratio of gauges I would have either 9-11-16-24-32-42 or 10-13-17-26-36-46. Not that that really means much to anyone.

NOW, I can talk about the video :)

To tell you the truth, the only thing that is really that singular in the video is Michael Hannon (the bass player). Really, that's the highlight of the whole song beside the slutty lyrics. I like the backing vocals when good ol' Mike does the "come-a come-a come-a", with a weird expression on his face. It's pretty great.

Kinda funny (more like peculiar) story:

I remember being in the car with my dad and he started singing that song a little, more specifically a little deviation of "sweet little baby, she's my hotdog bun..". By the time I was 15 (probably 8 years or so after that) it had stuck in my memory as "Ya gonna be my baby, gonna be my hotdog bun?" I really wanted to use it in a song, but I had to make sure that it wasn't in that song already (plagiarism is bad)-- and that my dad was just making things up.

So, lo! and behold, thaaaat version of the lyric wasn't in the song; in fact I couldn't find a trace of it on any lyric site. I told my dad that it didn't even exist and he told me the actual song name, and I looked it up on YouTube (where they have pretty much EVERYTHING). Ta-dah! I found it, and it was the most fantastic guitar and set of slutty blues lyrics I'd ever heard (that wasn't from an old blues song).