[Dixielandjazz] Yellow Dog Blues

[Mike Durham]

Re the lyrics to this one: the Yellow Dog was a nickname for the Yazoo & 
Delta RR, the Southern was the Southern RR and Moorhead, in Sunflower 
County, Mississippi was the town where the two lines crossed - "where the 
Southern cross the Yellow Dog". The Y&DRR is now part of the Illinois 
Central, I believe. And an Easy Rider is defined in my Blues Dictionary as 
'a sexually satisfying partner', also sometimes used to refer to the blues 
singer's guitar (perhaps a reference to the curved body of that instrument). 
So there you are. Now can someone come up with a definitive explanation of 
'to get one's ashes hauled'? I know what it MEANS, but wonder what the 
origin of the phrase can be!

Mike D.

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