E A
Pour rich cream into gallon glass jar
E
Put it across your knees or your lap
B
Bounce the jar back and forth.
E
Cream slides end to end, slap slap
A
Back and forth, keep on rockin
E
For a half an hour or so
B
Yellow streaks show thru the white cream
E
Keep bouncing it, singing as you go
A
Suddenly, the cream gets real thick,
E
A big blob of butter to be- hold
B
Pour away the butter milkthats the trick
E
Pat the butter on a flat wood mold
A
Push and shape it into its mould- seat
E
Force water and milk from the butter pad
B
Oh how fresh!...how very sweet
E
Best butter you have ever had
A
Now there were churns with cranks and wooden paddles
E
But the simple glass jar, shaked on your knees
B
Made butter faster than you could skid-daddle
E
And sweeter than ice- cream
E B E
Tag: Churning butter on the. farm.