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Thread #4784 Message #3169680
Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1
13-Jun-11 - 01:03 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Rum and Coconut Water
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rum and Coconut Water
Funny thing. According to my research, when the Bahamian singer "Blind Bake" Higgs, (mentioned on this site before) sang this song, he kept Houdini's name in line 3 of verse 2. Apparently in a book written by Joseph Mitchell, the New Yorker writer who met Houdini and wrote a profile of him in 1939, Houdini told Mitchell that he often drank gin and coconut water :). So maybe this song is inspired by Houdini not being able to find gin and coconut water in America? "Gin and coconut water, I cannot get in America."