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Thread #10108 Message #1173425
Posted By: Amos
28-Apr-04 - 03:43 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Rattlesnake Mountain/Springfield Mountain
Subject: RE: Lyr Add FOD
That verse should be "got into a fight", Joe. And, as I heard it long ago, it was "along come a woodchuck, wearing a verst". See, the woodchuck was wearing the vest, and the skunk had his britches on...enough to start a fight in any good song, and likely to smell pretty bad.
Makes sense to me, anyway!
A
Darn illiterat scannner! It read the word as "light." I made the correction, Amos. I think I like the "vest" line, too - maybe Lomax did a Mondegreen.
-Joe Offer-