Dialect variation in the Times

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 22, 2011, at 7:15 PM, Eric Nielsen wrote:

> Brownie Mcghee sang extra verses:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xnOhXIpHg
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> Of course, he could probably sing them all day long.
> 
> Eric
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At the iTunes Store there are 200 versions of "Key" to sample (90 seconds each), including some nice get-togethers: Sonny and Brownie with Big Bill Broonzy, B. B. King with Eric Clapton, and so on.   None of the 200 versions are by William Charles Segar.  It is a good song.  
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> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> William Charles Segar in 1940
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>> That's the guy who drew "Popeye," right?
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>> And who knew that the song was so recent?
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>> Are the words to the Broonzy version those that Segar wrote? The words
>> to the Walter and the Derek versions differ  both from Broonzy and
>> from each other. And Walter sings "I've" and not "I"." I regret the
>> error.
>> 
>> As it happens, I've actually heard only Walter's version and the
>> mistitled "Keep" version. It has, needless to say, words different
>> from those of all other versions. IMO, the differences are all too
>> trivial to be worth citing.
>> 
>> Sadly, only the version attributed to Broonzy mentions Texas in its lyrics.
>> 
>> There's a song entitled "T-99" that's also found as "Tee-Nah-Nah."
>> 
>> When The Stones substutue "_hurt_ my nose open," for "_had_ …," are
>> they using a more-familiar-to-them idiom? Or did they just fuck that
>> one up, as they did with the Texas Afro-Rockabilly hit, "Linda Lu"?
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>> -Wilson
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
>> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> -Mark Twain
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