Presumably it comes from to woo someone. The only time I've ever heard it used is here:

Tony probably uses it all the time because he too is an old southern tradition.

Dictionary.com says it may be obsolescent (again like Tony) and dates from the early 1800s (which is more like me)

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pitch-woo

Ahhh... the good old days. When all you needed to impress a girl was a good pair of boots, a horse, and most of your teeth ? 

the term "countrifies"  my song 

Elvis even used it in his songs

Posted by: AllfortheLord

you must be really young if ya haven't heard of pitchin woo

 

Jenny is from New Zealand, Allfor. It's not a term they use there. They do things differently. When the boys come calling on Jen, they do it like this.

my niece just returned from there, there they call lots of our terms different like tucker or the dunny or lollies etc  so most people when they see read or hear a different term than their country's will be confused, but every song can't be universal to words

Holy Crap! That's my X-wife in the back row!!! ? 

I'm younger than you, yes, but the main reason is probably because I'm not American.   🙂

Whoa! Totally missed this second page of the discussion. Delightful.

Elvis? Really? I sang "Blue Suede Shoes" on a cruise ship in Hawaii last month so I'm not unfamiliar with Mr Presley. I'd be interested to hear Elvis sing "pitching woo." Which song if you please?

Posted by: AllfortheLord

my niece just returned from there, there they call lots of our terms different like tucker or the dunny or lollies etc  so most people when they see read or hear a different term than their country's will be confused, but every song can't be universal to words

 

Very true. It's these differences that keeps things interesting. I first encountered the term "pitching woo" when I heard that Merle Haggard song in Texas during my first visit to the US. The fact that the song had an expression in it that was completely new to me just made it more fun.

I could post some links to Scottish songs here that probably I'd be the only one to understand, but they would be ruined if you stripped them of the words that give them their character. Country songs are rooted in a particular part of the world, and that's just fine as far as I'm concerned. 

Oi! New Zealand has a big country scene! I am joking of course. We're a drop in a very big bucket, but for a country of 4 million people, I suppose you could say there's a "scene" here. The likes of Jamie McDell and Brendon Mills come to mind

Oh, yes, I've got a lot o' living to do
A whole lot o' loving to do
Come on, baby--to make a party takes two
Oh yes, I've got a lot o' living to do
A whole lot o' loving to do
And there's no one who I'd rather do it with-a than you

There's a moon that's big and bright in the Milky Way tonight
But the way you act, you never would know it's there
So, baby, time's a wasting
A lot of kisses I ain't been tasting
I don't know about you, but I'm gonna get my share

Oh, got a lot o' living to do
A whole lot o' loving to do
Come on, baby--to make a party takes two
Oh yes, I've got a lot o' living to do
A whole lot o' loving to do
And there's no one who I'd rather do it with-a than you

There's a balmy little breeze
That's whistling through the trees
And it's telling you to pitch a little woo with me
Why don't you take a listen?
You'll never know what you've been missing
Cuddle up a little closer and be my little honey bee

Oh, got a lot o' living to do
A whole lot o' loving to do
Come on, baby--to make a party takes two
Oh yes I've got a lot o' living to do
A whole lot o' loving to do
And there's no one who I'd rather do it with-a than you

You're the prettiest thing I've seen
But you treat me so doggone mean
Ain't you got no heart? I'm dying to hold you near
Why do you keep me waiting?
Why don't you start cooperating?
And the things I say are things you want to hear

Oh, got a lot o' living to do
A whole lot o' loving to do
Come on, baby--to make a party takes two
Oh yes, I've got a lot o' living to do
A whole lot o' loving to do
And there's no one who I'd rather do it with-a than you

Posted by: Jenny Stokes

Oi! New Zealand has a big country scene! I am joking of course. We're a drop in a very big bucket, but for a country of 4 million people, I suppose you could say there's a "scene" here. The likes of Jamie McDell and Brendon Mills come to mind

Her name was tattooed on his arm. He got off lucky. I remember a guy with a rather more deep seated problem

What I meant about country music being rooted in a particular part of the world doesn't mean that onlypeople from there sing it. I mean that even if they're in New Zealand, they'll sing it as if they were in Tennessee or Texas with the corresponding cultural references and accent. Jamie McDell made no mention of pitching woo, but she could have because when she's singing this kind of song she's swapped Auckland for Alabama and beamed herself across the globe to where Tony is standing in his jammies blowing kisses over the fence to the neighbor lady as she goes by on her tractor.

not to be rude but let's keep the posts on the song, you can private message this other stuff

Girls with tractors are Sooooooo HOT!!! ?