Dean, Jimmy - I Won't Go Huntin' With You Jake Lyrics

This was the B side with Big Bad John on the A side. My older sister had the "45".

The intro of the song is very similar to another song I just can’t remember the name

Loved this song when I was a kid was one of the first 45 s I had.

Glenn Johnson Still have this single and i am in the process of recording the song myself.Bought six string banjo a couple of years ago so.....

An old Stuart Hamblen song. It's a favorite of third wave feminists, I'm sure.

* I utterly enjoy this song ********

I love this better than any other country music! I only love 50`s and 60`s country music and thats the only country music i like. The other country is SHIT! I listen to Rock ,heavy metal, death metal, synthesizer pop, old hip hop, old disco and old r&b!

My father always said that when he'd take my son and I fishing, never realized it was a song. Wow the memories!

This should have been the A side. Great fun tune.

My Uncle Lloyd gave me this when I was still a Youngin. I still play it on my turntable.

Y'all know what "that little shed that's right back of the house" is. Love the "Aaah-oooh!" hound sounds, too.

I know she's past 16 !

Soooo country and cornpone cute! I sang along with the 45 rpm record before I was old enough to understand that last verse. Oh Jimmy Dean! This music's way better than your sausage - and the sausage is mighty good. Thanks you, @pvrocker 56. Play it again...

Actually it's about Jake being a homosexual.

Such a cute song.....always loved it!

my late dad used to laugh at this song. does anyone know who played banjo on this song?

Same as my dad this was his favorite song

Sang this to my daughters since they were little. Remember my Dad singing it

I play the fiddle, and one of the first tunes I learned about 45 years ago was 'Chinese Breakdown'. I've just found out from someone at a music session that it's exactly the same tune as 'I won't go hunting . . .'

Them gals from 'Possum Creek must have been awfully ugly.

This song was on the flip side (45 rpm) of "Big John. Radios played "Big John", I played "I Won't Go Hunting".

Your Right, This is the best side!

i have a 45 that has this as the flip side to Little Black Book. written by Stuart Hamblin as i recolect

My uncle had the single for Big Bad John. I played this side over and over. It was one of the first songs I memorized because it was so funny to my five year old senses. I never remembered where or how I became acquainted with what’s alway seemed like the ultimate hillbilly song when I lived in a house where we sang and played standards every day. Thank you for your remarkable remark about this song and the wonderful resurrection of my fond memory. I play bluegrass and America to this day. I’ll take this to the Roots of American Music Camp and resurrect it.

Me Too!

I like both sides equally.

My father and I liked this song since I had all these songs on cassette tape

good song

I'll go chasin' wimmin' with Jimmy Dean anytime.

Boy this song is the definition of a HillBilly song! And I love it.

My  all  time favorite Jimmy Dean recording.  It's great fun to do  this in concert!

ah  ooo, :) Thanks for posting :)

They make um in da city its called a magazine...The greatest line of all time!!

written by the late Stuart Hamblin

Jake the Alligator man

Sexist BS!!!!

Lindsay Haisley - Well, it was a time, and indeed a place where men are men and women are glad of it.

What a fun person you must be to be around!!!!

my dad use to song this song to me when i was six im 44 now and dads past on love it

While unloading our M1's for a parade. I sang this to my friend Jake at the American Legion! We had a great laugh!

'Merica!!

Haven't heard this since I used to play my 45's in the 60's. Tune popped into my head, you-tubed it, and here it is....remarkable! Thanks for posting!

cool song love it so does my dad

This was on the flipside of my 45 to Big John.

Love it! Memories. :-)

I heard about this song in a book called, "A Life in a Year", which is about the U.S. infantry in Vietnam. One guy named Jeff said his whole unit called him "Jake" because one of the other soldiers liked this song and said Jeff looked like the kind of guy he'd chase women with.

no, thats where we used leave turds

Have been playing this for my ex-girlfriend (still buddies) in New Orleans for years. She said, lets see if its on Youtube... me: "No way". Turns out I forgot parts of verses 2&3 and put the rest together. Still, not bad for 42 years ago. First 45 I ever bought, for Bid Bad John, of course...

@rons2004 Happy you discovered side 2 of Big Bad John by accident. Nextdo: Play side 2 of all your 45s! You may discover more good songs :-)

My grandpa sings this song CONSTANTLY. Just the chorus. I wasn't even sure if it was a real song.

TallyRaps same here! My grandpa sings this song all the time and I thought it was something he'd made up haha. This song and "dang me" were my grandpa's favorites haha

OMG I just went back in time about 55 years!

@enduroman428 Is that where they keep the router and the modem and all those unsightly cables? :)

Wonder how many under the age of 50 even know what the "little shed right back of the house" is!

I like the Jimmy Dean, but check out the Stuart Hamblen original.

Outstanding cover of the Stuart Hamblen hit and for my money, it's Jimmy Dean's absolute masterpiece. He is greatly missed.

My friend got this on his jukebox and we we spin both "Big Bad John" and this just as much....

Spring time in the Mountains and can't read his catalog like he used to? Some pages missing Jimmy?

@JOEP123ful Thanks!!! Merry Christmas and hope you are listening to some meaningful tunes...Cyndy

To sm9847, my brother had the same record that I so remember listening to! I believe that the flip side with Big bad John had the original lyrics at the end "One HELL of a man" as opposed to the change made. Am I right?!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Jimmy Dean

My aunt tells me I used to run around the house singing this as a young child. Thanks for sharing it!

My aunt tells me I used to run around the house singing this as a young child. Thanks for sharing it!

Yaaaaaa Hooo!

One of my very favorite Jimmy Dean recordings. What a fun song to sing!

One of my all timefavorite songs. RIP Jimmy

Sadly, we lost Jimmy Dean on the thirteenth of June at age 81. I remain inconsolable. And for my money, I Won't Go Huntin' With You Jake is still not only his masterpiece, but one of the most perfect records in all of country music.

I love being old

Great song !

IS!!!!! he aint dead yet!

I have this song on a 33 /3 lp... its CS 9285 AND CL 2485 (google that, might help ya find the date).

I am looking at a 33 1/3 LP (and getting the songs offline)....

FROM THIS LP I say the best are.....

Big bad john
PT 109
Steel Men
hunting with ya jake

"Dear Ivan" (not on this LP- but its damm good too)!

For my money, this should have been the A-side of the single. It's far and away the best thing that Jimmy Dean ever did; right up there with "Makin' My Mind Up". A classic!

My buddy's got this on his jukebox.
Great song!

Thanks from me too... I have spent the better part of 45 years singing this - word for word - to lots of friends and family... It never fails to get strange looks. Great to hear it again.