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Thread #127336 Message #2839652
Posted By: Roger the Skiffler
15-Feb-10 - 06:14 AM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Ryder' or 'Rider' in blues songs
Subject: RE: Origins: 'Ryder' or 'Rider' in blues songs

Back to Jelly Roll Morton. When he sang "The whores go crazy 'bout the way I ride" (usually Bowdlerized to "girls"), he wasn't talkin' equestrianism, or train journeys, know what I mean, nudge, nudge!

RtS
"There are no sexual double meanings in the blues, just audiences with dirty minds" Tonedeaf Lime Clinton.