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Armen Tanzerian Lyr Req: Settin' the Woods on Fire (Hank Williams) (30) RE: Lyr Req: Set thw woods on fire - Hank William 18 Nov 01


It's stoker.

It sounds better than stroker.

And the lyricist, whoever it was, couldn't have cared less about 2-strokes, 4-strokes, or risqué double-entendres, for that matter. He was just trying to get the meter and feel right, the way Chuck Berry used to do: "Ridin' along in my calaboose." "We parked way out on the Kokomo." Nobody had ever used those words for "car" or "moonlit beach", but we knew exactly what they meant.

BTW, I would guess that Hank did not write the tune. Many of the commercial, novelty (cutesy) tunes were written for him.


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