The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #168421 Message #4069223
Posted By: Joe Offer
22-Aug-20 - 08:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Born in a Barrel House
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Born in a Barrel House
Hi, cnd - I don't correct my friend Louise. She's over 80, and she's the real thing. She grew in the Ozarks and knows all the old songs, and yet she can recite Dylan Thomas and Stephen Vincent Benet. And it was a thrill to go to Scotland with her three times. She keeps finding new adventures.
As for revenuers, I think I see it spelled "revenooers" more often, but I think I've seen a dozen different spelling. The usual term I hear is "Alcohol Tobacco Tax" for the agency - I think that was the term used by oldtimers in federal law enforcement, and I knew a lot of those old guys.