The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4856   Message #237355
Posted By: digger
02-Jun-00 - 09:13 AM
Thread Name: The Leadbelly Songbook
Subject: RE: The Leadbelly Songbook
Stupid question: what does "bottle up and go!" mean? I know Happy Traum sings it without the "these high powered women sure gotta ...." part which is how Leadbelly sang it. But I have been singing the song for 20 years and my 12-year-old daughter was playing it the other day on the guitar and asked: "what does bottle up and go mean?" Maybe, as someone wrote in this thread a while ago (Roger in Baltimore, perhaps?) it's just one of many variations. I like it better than Step it up and Go but I don't know why. Thanks for any info. David Shea in Spain