Help: Meaning of Six White Horses

Subject: RE: Help: Meaning of Six White Horses
From: Stewie
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 09:38 PM

Jerry, I believe Blind Lemon had only two white horses ['See that my grave is kept clean']. The Two Poor Boys [Joe Evans and Arthur McClain], who got it from Jefferson, recorded a version in 1931 under the title 'Two White Horses in a Line'.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Help: Meaning of Six White Horses
From: GUEST,dulcimer
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 06:51 PM

I certainly don't have anymore factual basis, but if 6 white horse are a symbol of prestige and importance, it would refer to Ma Jones's status or the status that is to be accorded her.

Subject: RE: Help: Meaning of Six White Horses
From: khandu
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 06:01 PM

And there is the country song by Tommy Cash;

"Goodbye John, six white horses gonna carry you home

Goodbye John, they took you away before you sang your song"

This is another song about the deaths of the Kennedy's and King.

khandu

Subject: RE: Help: Meaning of Six White Horses
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 05:19 PM

"Six white horses in a line
Six white horses in a line
Six white horses in a a line
Going to carry me to my burying ground"

Blind Lemon sang about being carried to his grave in a hearse pulled by six white horses, and I don't think he was wealthy.

"Six white horses and a rubber-tired hack
Gonna carry me to the graveyard and they won't bring me back"

Without thinking a whole lot about it, it seems like six white horses is a fairly commonly used image. And as an image, it sure is more visual than six black horses, or six variegated color horses.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Help: Meaning of Six White Horses
From: Les from Hull
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 02:30 PM

You usually have black horses for a hearse, don't you?

Driving six white horses would seen to mean that she had become very rich. Only the fanciest carriages had six horses and a matched team of six white horses had to be the fanciest of them all.

Subject: RE: Help: Meaning of Six White Horses
From: MMario
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 02:21 PM

The only other thing I can think of with six white horses would be a hearse.

Subject: Meaning of Six White Horses
From: GUEST,Bev and Jerry
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 02:20 PM

In the song "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain" there's a verse which goes: "She'll be drivin' six white horses when she comes". Last night we got into a discussion of the meaning of this verse and no one could come up with it.

Anybody out there know?

Bev and Jerry