Here’s an interesting blog for those times when you are just plain bored.
http://hillbillysavants.blogspot.com/
Check out the archives. 
Strange, there’s no mention there of the Bugtussle Highland Games. 
djm
That’s a really nice website. I used to listen to a lot of bluegrass and I thought the family tree in the archive was really interesting even though I don’t follow the bands any more and don’t know who some of the people are. I used to be crazy about a song some fellows sang in a pizza parlor in Santa Cruz, years and years ago. I never heard much about it anywhere else and never looked into it but one of the links had me discovering that it was written by Bill Monroe:
Sugar Coated Love
Sugar coated love, you gave me on a plate
I took a bite and then I looked to see what I had ate
I found I had a cinder all covered up in white
That old sugar coated love is something I can’t bite
You say you are leaving me for another man
He has all the wealth and charm and not my kind of brand
Baby I fell down on my knees a pleading for your love
Can’t understand what I saw in a sugar coated love
You called me your sugar plum, your baby and your pet
Said I was your Romeo and you my Juliet
I thought you were my angel, my little sugar dove
You sure had me fooled, babe, with that sugar coated love
The band was called The Bear Creek Boys. They never got famous but to this day I still think they were among the best bluegrass bands I’ve heard. For the price of a beer you could sit there for hours every Saturday night and listen to the greatest music. One time a very elderly man asked me if I wanted to dance. I had to tell him I didn’t know how—which was true—but I’ve always wished I could have taken him up on his offer. People didn’t dance there but he was so sweet and he obviously had danced to this kind of music before in some other places. This song was a constant request and I think they got kinda tired of singing it though 
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Thanks for that. Now I’m homesick…
That is an interesting site. 
Every time I read the title to this thread I read it as “Hillbilly Savate”. Quite a strange mental image.
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The caber toss is a contest in which **brawny men** flip 21-foot (6.4-meter) wooden poles weighing hundreds of pounds end over end.
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The [sport is open to women too...](http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/01/1072908850991.html)Wake up wake up darling Corey
What makes you sleep so sound
The revenue officers are coming
They’re gonna tear your still-house down.
Well the first time I seen darling Corey
She was sitting by the banks of the sea
Had a forty-four around her body
And a five-string on her knee.
Classic Flatt & Scruggs. Thanks for the link.
Those bluegrass/oldtime lyrics are certainly fun. I found this one that’s one of my favorites to play with my brother-
Hot Corn, Cold Corn
Hot corn cold corn bring along the demijohn
Hot corn cold corn bring along the demijohn
Hot corn cold corn bring along the demijohn
Fare thee well Uncle Bill see you in the morning yes sir
Well it’s upstairs downstairs out in the kitchen (3x)
See you Uncle Bill just a raring and a pitching yes sir
Well it’s old Aunt Peggy won’t you fill 'em up again (3x)
Ain’t had a drink since the lord knows when yes sir
Well yonder comes the preacher and the children are a crying (3x)
Chickens a running and the toenails a flying yes sir
It’s interesting to note that earlier versions of that song used the phrase, “the highway robbers are coming” instead of “revenue officers”.
That’s one of my favorites. Back when my kids were little they would sing, “Hot corn corn corn bring along the kitty cat.”
My cousin and I, in a fit of merriment, changed the words to “…bring along the debutant.”
I just love the mental image I get thinking of the preacher comin’(those chickens better run or they’ll end up in the skillet) and toenails flyin’