A Ham of Meat

There’s a classic old time tune “How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?”. I know it from The Freight Hoppers but it’s certainly much older than that. The answer?

How many biscuits can you eat? 49 and a ham of meat.

Obviously. Wait, did they say “a ham of meat”?

Some renditions of the song just cruise right through that. Some of them let some of the instruments drop out during that line (the italics of songcrafting).

I appreciate how Split Lip Rayfield really plays it up, going stop-time, slowing down the pace, and adding a certain growl to the lyric.