[Dixielandjazz] Re: Yellow Dog Blues

[Don Kirkman]

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 08:36:46 -0700, Stan Brager wrote:

>Here are the troubling passages:

Some slightly different lyrics from http://tinyurl.com/pt5f

I seen him and he was on the bog
>"he was on the hog"
hog - a locomotive

>"the smoke was broke"

>"not a Jitney on him"
jitney - a nickel

Easy rider, got to stay away
So he had to vamp it but the hike ain't far.
>"he had to vamp it but the hike ain't far"
vamp - improvise; walk into town instead of detraining?

>"is like Old Beck an Buck shot land"
Buckshot - shotgun shells loaded for deer
Apparently there was a well-known Beck family line of gunsmiths in the
18th/19th centuries; perhaps "old Beck" was a Beck shotgun?

Every kitchen there is like a cabaret;
>"Every kitchen there is a cabaret

Boll weevil works while the people play
>down there the Boll Weevil works"

Any help?
-- 
Don
donkirk at covad.net