Tom Smith - Posted - 09/12/2009:  05:56:19

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In the topic "Learn the Lyrics Correctly"
Banjo Brad provided the correct lyrics to the Wildwood Flower

....I’ll twine mid the ringlets Of my raven black hair,
The lilies so pale And the roses so fair,
The myrtle so bright With an emerald hue,
And the pale aronatus With eyes of bright blue.,,,

and Jim Yates responded
"Ahh, That makes a little more sense. What's an aronatus?"
(a good question).

There are plenty of songs out there that have similar issues.

Regarding the Wabash Cannonball, What are rods and breakbeams and who was Daddy Claxton?



Tom Smith

Jack T - Posted - 09/12/2009:  08:15:23

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Daddy Claxton was a legendary hobo in the 1800's.

The rods are the steel connecting rods between the crosshead (drive cylinders) and the driving wheels.

The brake beam is a transverse beam of steel or wood that carries a brakehead and shoes at each end by means of which the pressure in the brake cylinder transmitted through the brake lever is conveyed to and equally distributed on the brake tread of both wheels on an axle.

By the way, an aronatus is a flower.

Jim Yates - Posted - 09/13/2009:  11:23:47

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A search in Wikipoedea found:

Plant expert Ed Hume reports that he is unaware of a plant known as aronatus.[4] In an unpublished monograph, Dr. Richard Blaustein, professor of sociology and anthropology at East Tennessee State University, has made a thorough analysis of the question, and identifies the amaranthus or amaranth (Latin: aramanthus), a flower of some literary heritage,[5] as a possible source of the "aronatus" of the Maud Irving song.

and someother interesting modegreens concerning Wildwood Flower. When I put aronatus into google, all of the results mentioned the songWildwood Flower and none were about actual flowers. I'm sure that aronatus is meant to be a flower in the song, but it's probably a ficticious one.

Jim
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Dear God please help me to finish what I sta

Tom Smith - Posted - 09/14/2009:  02:16:57

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Why all the concern over the theft of a nine pound hammer that was, by the admission of the victim himself, too heavy. I would count my blessings, buy an eight-pound hammer and move on with my life.

forksken - Posted - 09/29/2009:  22:58:54

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amaranthus makes sense since there is a common blue variety native to the us and other countries. Probably a common colloquilism of its day.

pick till my fingers git sore then pick some more

ChikPicker - Posted - 10/13/2009:  07:45:20

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So, when you guys learn a new song, do you always understand the meaning of the lyrics or do you sometimes play a song and sing the lyrics just because it's a nice piece of music?

Nancy

banjoscotty - Posted - 10/13/2009:  08:30:32

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You are absolutely correct,Nancy.Many times we all
will play a song not really knowing or understanding
what the lyrics are saying just because it might be a good sounding melody.I confess that on my part this is not
quite right.After all,isn't it the words that make a song and
the instruments are to complament the singer???

Scotty

,,,,other than that,,we ain't nothin but "good ole boys"

ChikPicker - Posted - 10/13/2009:  09:40:19

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I'm not sure it's wrong necessarily Scotty! There are some songs that are pretty hard to figure what the writer really meant (at least for me)

Nancy

jazzrambler - Posted - 10/13/2009:  13:58:26

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Sometimes getting it wrong can be fun! Our family band name "Zombie Valley Revival" comes from our son mishearing the lyrics to "Man of Constant Sorrow." He was running around the house singing, "You can bury me in 'Zombie Valley' ..."


What do you throw to a drowning guitar player?

ChikPicker - Posted - 10/14/2009:  05:33:14

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quote:

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Originally posted by jazzrambler

Sometimes getting it wrong can be fun! Our family band name "Zombie Valley Revival" comes from our son mishearing the lyrics to "Man of Constant Sorrow." He was running around the house singing, "You can bury me in 'Zombie Valley' ..."


What do you throw to a drowning guitar player?

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Ok I'll bite- what do you throw to a drowning guitar player.

I know what you mean about it being funny to misunderstand lyrics- one phrase my son misunderstood went "the day that she was" but he heard it as "dated cheetahs"!

Nancy

Johnboy109 - Posted - 10/14/2009:  07:02:34

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quote:

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Originally posted by jazzrambler

Sometimes getting it wrong can be fun!

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There's a YouTube vid of Chet Atkins in the studio singing,"Mr Joe Bangles"

"To become old and wise, you have to survive young and stupid"

jazzrambler - Posted - 10/14/2009:  13:15:47

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What do you throw a drowning guitar player?
C'mon you've heard that old joke...
An Amp!



What do you throw to a drowning guitar player?

ChikPicker - Posted - 10/15/2009:  09:08:15

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haha, nope I never heard that joke! I'm new here so feel free to bring out all the old musician jokes and have a laugh at/on me!!!

Nancy