Crackers (Re: Rock & Roll and Language)

[Sojourner]

At 09:20 AM 7/17/97 -0400, Ted Samsel wrote:

>Good old boy works....
>But as I inferred, there's a good deal of anti-Southernness around
>the Northeast. One should remember what JFK said about Washington,
>DC:
>
>"A place that combines the manners and gentility of the northeast
>with the efficiency of the south."
>
>Huddie Ledbetter called it:
>
>"a bourgois (sp) town"
>
>Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
>

	"And don't you go up to Washington, DC
	 It's the home of the bourgeoisie
	 It's a bourgeois town..
	 bourgeois town..
	 I got the the bourgeois blues
	 And I'm spreadin' the news around."

		--Leadbelly


as a former resident of DC, Maryland and NoVa, I must say I heartily agree
with Mssr. Ledbetter.



	"Sumur aftarnewns win the tar bubals bloom in the 
	rode, wyld dayzees backun gyrlz to sic pehdal fortyoons 
	and weev chayns of frahgrunt dreems."

		--unknown