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... if I don't get rye whiskey, I surely will die.
This little ditty was running through my head more or less non-stop during the trip to Europe. I not only didn't know why, I couldn't even identify the song.
Now it's playing on my iPod shuffle! However, I still don't know who's singing it or even what it's called. The strange thing about iPod-izing your albums is discovering how many songs are on them that you normally don't even notice when you play the album straight through. When they are playing right into your ear, however, they are impossible to ignore. This particular one seems to be nothing but a string of what trad music folks call "commonplaces" - floating verses that move from song to song without really adding anything to the story. I'm guessing that this song is identified as "Jack o' Diamonds," since that's the verse that leads it off. The tune is similar to the one that Chas knew, but just a little bit different. And it's missing that charming verse about the duck.
This little ditty was running through my head more or less non-stop during the trip to Europe. I not only didn't know why, I couldn't even identify the song.
Now it's playing on my iPod shuffle! However, I still don't know who's singing it or even what it's called. The strange thing about iPod-izing your albums is discovering how many songs are on them that you normally don't even notice when you play the album straight through. When they are playing right into your ear, however, they are impossible to ignore. This particular one seems to be nothing but a string of what trad music folks call "commonplaces" - floating verses that move from song to song without really adding anything to the story. I'm guessing that this song is identified as "Jack o' Diamonds," since that's the verse that leads it off. The tune is similar to the one that Chas knew, but just a little bit different. And it's missing that charming verse about the duck.
