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Ok, listen, Black Betty was the wagon that used to take prisoners from the prison to the work site (chain gang) and back. A Black Maria. A Paddy Wagon. Windowless, all black and hot as hell inside.
Or it could have been a reference to The Pennsylvania Long Rifle.
Or a liquor bottle.
Me? I hold with the prison wagon story as originally told to Alan Lomax.
What ANY of that has to do with this particular video of the song I don't know.
Nor do I really care. . .
- Continuing Down The Psychosis Hole
Madness! Madness I say! More proof the Left is mentally ill and they don't even see it. SICK. She is saying you can be black, if you associate with being black. That’s why actual black folk who are conservative aren’t really black, but...
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The Doobie BrothersCycles TourFull Concert Honolulu 1990 01 Rockin' Down the Highway 02 Jesus is Just Alright 03 Road Angel 04 Dark Eyed Cajun Woman 05 One Chain Don't Make No Prison 06 Dependin' on You 07 Time is Here and Gone 08 Take...
- What A Group!
With a hat tip to Beamish: As I said at Beamish's site: They sound like those I went to college with from 1968-1972. "A consensus for a consensus to start up a committee?" My professors sounded like that too. Nobody talked back then about occupying...
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This video was made only 2 years after the death of Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, when the emotion behind the song is still visibly fresh in Chrissie Hynde's delivery The PretendersBack on the Chain GangI FOUND A PICTURE OF YOU, WHAT...
- Archie And Veronica, Sittin' In A Tree. . .
My grandmother has always told my daughters, even to this day, the first time you marry for money, the second time for love. I've never been too sure how much she was kidding. . . But clearly, Archie has taken her advice. The dumbass. Would have been...
Green Energy
Ok, listen, Black Betty was the wagon that used to take prisoners from the prison to the work site (chain gang) and back. A Black Maria. A Paddy Wagon. Windowless, all black and hot as hell inside.
Or it could have been a reference to The Pennsylvania Long Rifle.
Or a liquor bottle.
Me? I hold with the prison wagon story as originally told to Alan Lomax.
What ANY of that has to do with this particular video of the song I don't know.
Nor do I really care. . .
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Black Betty
- Continuing Down The Psychosis Hole
Madness! Madness I say! More proof the Left is mentally ill and they don't even see it. SICK. She is saying you can be black, if you associate with being black. That’s why actual black folk who are conservative aren’t really black, but...
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The Doobie BrothersCycles TourFull Concert Honolulu 1990 01 Rockin' Down the Highway 02 Jesus is Just Alright 03 Road Angel 04 Dark Eyed Cajun Woman 05 One Chain Don't Make No Prison 06 Dependin' on You 07 Time is Here and Gone 08 Take...
- What A Group!
With a hat tip to Beamish: As I said at Beamish's site: They sound like those I went to college with from 1968-1972. "A consensus for a consensus to start up a committee?" My professors sounded like that too. Nobody talked back then about occupying...
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This video was made only 2 years after the death of Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, when the emotion behind the song is still visibly fresh in Chrissie Hynde's delivery The PretendersBack on the Chain GangI FOUND A PICTURE OF YOU, WHAT...
- Archie And Veronica, Sittin' In A Tree. . .
My grandmother has always told my daughters, even to this day, the first time you marry for money, the second time for love. I've never been too sure how much she was kidding. . . But clearly, Archie has taken her advice. The dumbass. Would have been...