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TheOldMole	16 Jan 00 - 04:58 PM
Rick Fielding	17 Jan 00 - 12:03 AM
TheOldMole	17 Jan 00 - 11:57 AM
The Shambles	17 Jan 00 - 03:09 PM
Stewie	17 Jan 00 - 10:03 PM
Roger the skiffler	18 Jan 00 - 06:21 AM

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Subject: Crocheting and Blind Lemon
From: TheOldMole
Date: 16 Jan 00 - 04:58 PM

Blind Lemon Jefferson has a verse:

I got a gal, she crochets all the time (2x) If you don't stop crocheting, girl you gonna lose your mind.

What the hell is he talking about?

I mean...I know what he's talking about, more or less...but how is this a metaphor for it? And where did it come from? And is there anything similar in other blues?

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Crocheting and Blind Lemon
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 17 Jan 00 - 12:03 AM

Well, if he's not refering to her penchant for listening to Jim Croce, it's GOTTA be about sex! There have been a number of knitting needle metaphors, but I haven't heard "chrocheting" before.

Rick

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Crocheting and Blind Lemon
From: TheOldMole
Date: 17 Jan 00 - 11:57 AM

I figure it's about masturbation -- "you gonna lose your mind." But I haven't run across any remotely similar metaphors.

TheOldMole

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Crocheting and Blind Lemon
From: The Shambles
Date: 17 Jan 00 - 03:09 PM

I couldn't resit a thread with a title like this one. I wish I had for I will never be able to think of my old Gran, busy in her rocking chair in quite the same way now.

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Crocheting and Blind Lemon
From: Stewie
Date: 17 Jan 00 - 10:03 PM

Shambles, that brings to mind a verse from Michael Hurley's 'Don't Treat Me Bad' on his 'Snockgrass' album:

Grandma, grandma
Jackin' off and she's 84
Don't treat her bad
Don't treat her bad
Grandma, grandma
Use your left hand
It feels like someone else
It feels like someone elst

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Crocheting and Blind Lemon
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 18 Jan 00 - 06:21 AM

And next week, class, Howlin'Wolf and needlepoint...[Sorry! but great attention-grabbing thread title!]
RtS

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