Lake Fork Verne - Churning butter on the farm

^EPour rich cream into gallon glass ^Ajar Put it across your knees or your ^Elap Bounce the jar back and ^Bforth. Cream slides end to end, slap ^Eslap

Back and forth, keep on ^Arockin For a half an hour or ^Eso Yellow streaks show thru the white ^Bcream Keep bouncing it, singing as you ^Ego

Suddenly, the cream gets real ^Athick, A big blob of butter to be- ^Ehold Pour away the butter milkthats the ^Btrick Pat the butter on a flat wood ^Emold

Push and shape it into its mould- ^Aseat Force water and milk from the butter ^Epad Oh how fresh!...how very ^Bsweet Best butter you have ever ^Ehad

Now there were churns with cranks and wooden ^Apaddles But the simple glass jar, shaked on your ^Eknees Made butter faster than you could ^Bskid-daddle And sweeter than ice- ^Ecream

Tag: ^EChurning ^Bbutter on the. ^Efarm.