I say "Lusitan-i-ay"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Readers of HDAS (and I do mean "readers") know that "on the hog" (or "on a hog") used to mean "broke or being a hobo."  That explains the title of guitarist Jimmie Tarlton's "Down in Florida on a Hog" on the album _Steel Guitar Rag_.

  If you listen carefully you will hear Tarlton say "Floridy" every time.  In the song "Pretty Little Girl," he sings "Georgy." Tarlton was born in South Carolina (i.e., "-liny") in 1892 and died in 1979.

  JL


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