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Thread #151206   Message #3835800
Posted By: GUEST,Fred Edwords
30-Jan-17 - 06:21 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Tight Like That - meaning?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Tight Like That - meaning?
In country & western usage, "getting tight" means getting drunk. But such a meaning doesn't seem to fit any version of the song "Tight Like That."

As for Louis Armstrong's December 1928 version, called "Tight Like This," he doesn't sing enough in the way of lyrics to make the words anything more than a jazz expression of no particular meaning.