I had a dog, his name was Bill, A-workin' on the levee. My dog is gone, but I'm here still, A-workin' on the levee.

Anybody else heard that verse??

Now Leeneia--OED (Oxford English Dictionary) traces "livelong" back to the year 1578, which makes it a nice Elizabethanism to be fossilized in the Sunny South. On my way upstairs to retrieve that tome, I remembered that the word also occurs in Shakespeare--very early on in "Julius Caesar." Alas, poor supposition; I knew it well.

Also, "Shortnin' Bread" works as a counter-melody to the "Dinah won't you blow" part. When was such erudition last exchanged? Not since Thomas Jefferson talked to himself.

But Dinah as a train?? I can't relate.