Subject: Lyr Add: HOOD RIVER ROLL ON (Utah Phillips)^^ From: Stewie Date: 08 Mar 00 - 08:34 PM HOOD RIVER ROLL ON (U. Utah Phillips)
The rusty pot bubbles, the bottle goes 'round
Chorus
The fire's knocked down, the balloons are all packed Chorus
The box rumbles up on a black cinder grade Chorus
May your long apple valleys stay green through the fall Chorus
Words and music U. Utah Phillips. Copyright 1997 On Strike Music BMI. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hood River roll on From: kendall Date: 08 Mar 00 - 09:42 PM shouldn'that read..he rolls out his BINDLE? and is it really rubber tramps? sounded like trams to me?? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hood River roll on From: Stewie Date: 09 Mar 00 - 01:15 AM Kendall Not in this case. In his 5-minute intro to the song Utah mentions that Hood River Blackie referred to a 'bindle' as a 'balloon', and his preferred term is used in the song. I used the lyrics printed in the booklet - the term used in respect of the 'kid' is 'bedroll'. Actually, Utah sings 'shakes out his bedroll' rather than the printed 'unrolls his bedroll'. Stecher and Brislin also sing 'bedroll' in their recording on their album of Phillips' songs. In the last line of the song, Utah is, without question, singing 'rubber tramps'. That is also what is in the printed booklet and what Stecher and Brislin sing. Utah explains about the 'old truck or car' that Blackie took up into the apple valleys where the trains wouldn't go - called 'rubber trams'. The reference in the last line is no doubt symbolic and not without its relevance to the 'ersatz hobo jungle' that Blackie created for the Sacramento railroad museum. Get hold of the CD and listen for yourself - like all of Utah's stuff, it's well worth having. --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hood River roll on From: Stewie Date: 09 Mar 00 - 01:20 AM And, all that aside, how can 'trams' ride? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hood River roll on From: kendall Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:34 AM Its the English in me. I have Stecher and Brislins recording, but, guess I'd better get the masters CD. I used to have a boss who "rode the rods" for a while, and he told me that the pack the tramps carried were called bindles. He also explained that a tramp is also called a "bindle stiff" Also, a "wangdoodle" is a female salvation army worker. What would language be without color? |
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