[Dixielandjazz] Re: Shine & That's Why They Call Me Shine

Ric Giorgi ricgiorgi at sympatico.ca
Tue Nov 2 05:05:01 PST 2004


>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Shine & That's Why They Call Me Shine

>Andy Ling posted the lyric of Shine which included :

>"Come on and pipe the shine"

>Now what the devil does that mean? 

Surely this means to take a pipe (to beat) the person referred to as
"Shine". 

"Shine" referring possibly to 'the person with a 'sunny' disposition or
'shoe-shine man'?







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