Getting over on DARE

[Sam Clements]

Well I´ve done, got over
Yes, I´ve done got over at last
I´ve done, got over
Yes, I´ve done got over at last
I´m a natural born lover
Since I got rid of all my trouble
Yes I´ve done got over at last

No more cryin´ , no more sighin´
No more walkin´ the floor over you
No more cryin´ no more sighin´
No more walkin´ the floor over you
I´m a natural born lover
Since I got rid of all my trouble
Yes, I´ve done got over at last

Just 'possibly' couldn't it be "done got over you" ??

SC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilson Gray" <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: Getting over on DARE


> On Aug 25, 2004, at 12:57 PM, Grant Barrett wrote:
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> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       Grant Barrett <gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG>
> > Subject:      Re: Getting over on DARE
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> > Are you sure that song isn't the sexual/seduction "get over"?
>
> Have you ever heard the song? It seems to me that any reading between
> the lines would be up to the individual listener. Different strokes for
> different folks. Further deponent sayeth not.
>
> -Wilson Gray
>
>   DARE doesn't have a sub-sense for that, but HDAS does, and cites
> Farmer &
> > Henley to 1890-93.
> >
> > Grant Barrett
> >
> > On Aug 24, 2004, at 17:07, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >
> >> DARE dates BE "get over" with the meaning "succeed," etc. to 1971.
> >> However, its use occurs far earlier than that. And,  for a change, I
> >> can supply some documentation. I say "some," because, though I can
> >> remember this term from the mid-'Fifies, I can't document it as far
> >> back as that.
> >>
> >> Anyway, the term occurs in the song, "Natural-Born Lover," written and
> >> recorded by Fats Domino and released as an "Imperial" recording in
> >> 1960. The first stanza is,
> >>
> >> Well, I done got over.
> >> I done got over, at last.
> >> I'm a natural-born lover,
> >> Since I got rid of all my trouble,
> >> Yes, I done got over, at last.
> >>
> >> -Wilson Gray
> >>
> >>
> >
>