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Thread #49649   Message #1409282
Posted By: GUEST
14-Feb-05 - 10:23 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: That'll Never Happen No More (Blind Blake
Subject: RE: Blind Blake: 'That'll Never Happen .....
"Pork" and "pigmeat" are common sexual metaphors (meataphors!)in blues music. Blind Boy Fuller in "Black & Tan" sings: "I got me a pigmeat woman, I cannot use sowbelly no more." So Murray, there is an allusion rather than a full double entendre explicit in the line you mention. "Barbeque" is another word and all these words can refer to a woman and/or to the sexual act. "Pussy" is a more modern and generally understood term that has the same useage. For what it's worth, I think Blake sings "...used to eating porkchops, meat and salt"