[Dixielandjazz] Re: Yellow Dog Blues

[Stan Brager]

Thanks, Don. I wonder if the difference in lyrics are that one set is what
W.C. Handy wrote and the other as sung by Bessie Smith?

Stan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Kirkman" <donkirk at covad.net>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Yellow Dog Blues


> 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
>
>