The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98894   Message #1966090
Posted By: Goose Gander
13-Feb-07 - 11:16 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Delia's Gone (J. Cash version)
Subject: RE: Delia's Gone (J. Cash version)
"Rubber tired buggy rubber tired hack
They took poor Delia to the graveyard
They ain't gonna bring her back"

Reminds me of a verse usually found in St. James Infirmary . . .

"Sixteen coal black horses
All hitched to a rubber tired hack
Carried seven girls to the graveyard
Only six of them come back."

I'm writing from memory, but I think those are the lines - can't remember the source, though.