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Thread #123743   Message #2727357
Posted By: Fred McCormick
20-Sep-09 - 12:10 PM
Thread Name: What is a mountain jack?
Subject: RE: What is a mountain jack?
A blues pianist and singer called Neal Roberts recorded a song called Wild Jack Blues in 1928 in Dallas, with animal imitations by Billiken Johnson. I starts:

"Wildjack's on the mountain and he brays the whole day long"

and ends

"I'm gonna keep my wildjack if I have to chain him down".

The rest of the song is in similar vein and it's obvious that Roberts is using a donkey to represent a phallic motif.

Anybody ever heard of a mountain donkey?