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Thread #36991 Message #515235
Posted By: Mr Red
26-Jul-01 - 04:32 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Big Rock Candy Mountain (John Hartford)
Subject: RE: Big Rock Candy Mountain (Hartford)
GUEST,djh
Read the Klime book 15 years since
must have been elsewhere I heard the discourse but the discussers were definitely of the opinion that hobos had to be careful where the slept for all sorts of reasons but sometimes because they could be trapped by a big burly beauty. The comment was that Woody would have been all too familiar with this. Then they made reference to the song, in context. Without the lyrics in front of me I could not make too much of it but filed it away till needed. And here it popped out.
I'm sure if you wanted to make the case there is a lot to go on in the lyrics above
apple knocker, his joker, and what is the precise meaning of punkerino? etc etc ad nauseum