Rc cola and moon pie lyrics

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Quick Description: The town of Ben Wheeler welcomes you with a mural featuring a boy enjoying an RC Cola and a MoonPie, at 1560 FM 279, invoking the Big Bill Lister classic, "Gimme an RC Cola and a MoonPie."

Location: Texas, United States

Date Posted: 1/18/2018 8:31:46 PM

Waymark Code: WMXJCG

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Long Description:
This pairing is a tradition in the American South, although some of us Northerners love it, too. Whether it's Big Bill Lister, Lonzo and Oscar, NRBQ, or some of the others who have done their own cover, the lyrics are:

Gimme an RC Cola and a MoonPie and play "Maple on the Hill"
I'll catch that freight train on the fly and leave my corn down at the mill
Cause I sold my calf for a dollar and a half so brother, I can pay the bill
Gimme an RC Cola and a MoonPie and play "Maple on the Hill"

Ridin' saplins' all day long, clearin' path, new ground
But I'll be leavin' before long, goin' into town
I may be just a country boy but brother, I get my thrill
With an RC Cola and a MoonPie playin' "Maple on the Hill"

Got a brand new pair of overalls, brogans greased and shined
I'll tell you boys, I did it all for that gal of mine
We'll dance all night and broad daylight will find us goin' still
With an RC Cola and a MoonPie playin' "Maple on the Hill"

Gimme an RC Cola and a MoonPie and play "Maple on the Hill"

I'll catch that freight train on the fly and leave my corn down at the mill
Cause I sold my calf for a dollar and a half so brother, I can pay the bill
Gimme an RC Cola and a MoonPie and play "Maple on the Hill"

Gimme an RC Cola and a MoonPie and play "Maple on the Hill"

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Songfacts®:

• RC Cola, a soda drink, and Moon Pie, a pastry with a marshmallow filling, was a popular food combination in the American South in the 1950s. Their inexpensive prices combined with their generous portions meant the sodas and pastries were particularly favored by the working class, leading to RC Cola and Moon Pie being coined the "working man's lunch." In 1951, Big Bill Lister recorded an homage to the snack combination, "Gimme an RC Cola and a Moon Pie," and it was from this song that NRBQ lifted the retro arrangement for "RC Cola and a Moon Pie." NRBQ keyboardist, Terry Adams, told the Hartford Courant that he was an RC Cola enthusiast when he was younger: "Back then, I drank RCs, like two or three 16-ounce ones a day. I don't drink the stuff anymore. It's bad for you. I'd much rather have carrot juice."

• There are two versions of this song - the original version, on the Workshop album, and a second, longer version, which was issued as a b-side to the single, "C'mon If You're Comin'," in 1973.

• In 1976, NRBQ held their first ever Moon Pie Festival, a music festival in Hartford, Connecticut. The festival was held annually until 1980, before being revived again in 1993, when every attendee was given a free Moon Pie.

• Workshop, NRBQ's third album, was originally titled Age of Aquarium. It was the first album to feature what many consider to be the "classic quartet" line up: Terry Adams (keyboard/coronet/trumpet), Joey Spampinato (bass/guitar/sax/vocals), Al Anderson (guitar/vocals), and Tom Staley (drums).