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Thread #48959 Message #3177344
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
27-Jun-11 - 04:22 PM
Thread Name: South Australia:What the hell's a 'Rolling King'?
Subject: RE: What the hell's a 'Rolling King'?
GUEST,Thomas--
What you say is certainly correct about the typical route and why the "Cape Horn" lyric sounds kind of funky. The "Cape Horn" lyric may, however, have been merely a "floating" lyric. It has become one today. Or, if my theory is correct :) it is an adaptation of a more typical sort of floating lyric in Southern U.S. songs, in which one rhymes "born" with "corn". It's a parody of sorts on that model, where the nautical sounding "Cape Horn" was substituted. But that's just a theory.