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08 Sep 99 - 08:45 AM (#112408) Subject: Lightnin' Hopkins song - meaning From: Paul S Lightnin' Hopkins sings a song called Short-Haired Woman. The first verse goes: I don't want no woman What does buying rats have to do with all of these troublesome short-haired women? Is this some old superstition I've never heard of? |
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08 Sep 99 - 09:03 AM (#112416) Subject: RE: Lightnin' Hopkins song - meaning From: Roger the zimmer Maybe I'm just perverted but I'm getting an image, it's Richard Gere, it's a hamster,no, it's a possum, no,it's a rat, as a substitute for a girl who turned out to be a friend of k.d.lang? I dunno, doctor, what do you think, you're showing me all the dirty pictures? I prefer the "Straight an' Nat'ral Blue"(Fred McDowall) |
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08 Sep 99 - 12:27 PM (#112486) Subject: RE: Lightnin' Hopkins song - meaning From: jtm Wasn't a rat an expression for a hair piece back in the 40-50s, and before? I remember people talking a rat in their hair to make it look longer or fuller |
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08 Sep 99 - 05:58 PM (#112585) Subject: RE: Lightnin' Hopkins song - meaning From: Frank Hamilton The rat hairpiece is plausible I think. African-American women tend to style hair short. There might be an association with long-haired women as being "loose". Long hair is also a caucasion characteristic. The "rat" hairpiece might symbolize some kind of deception. This is all speculative, mind you. Frank Hamilton |
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08 Sep 99 - 08:23 PM (#112636) Subject: RE: Lightnin' Hopkins song - meaning From: DougR I can tell you for sure there was a hairpiece called a rat during the time period jtm mentions. Don't know if that's what Lightin' has in mind though. It would make some sense though. DougR |