bluzlvr
340 posts
Apr 02, 2010
2:56 PM
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I was listening to some Albert King the other day and I got to thinking about blues metaphors.
Of course most of them have to do with doin' the deed.
"I'm a crosscut saw, baby, drag me across your log..."
Whats your favorite blues metaphor?
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eharp
600 posts
Apr 02, 2010
3:03 PM
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goin' to the kitchen to get my hambone boiled.
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MP
152 posts
Apr 02, 2010
3:06 PM
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not a metaphor but a great line.
"i ain't seen so many beautiful women all in one spot since they closed the welfare office!"
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nacoran
1554 posts
Apr 02, 2010
3:53 PM
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I have a lyric I'm working on that goes,
"I met a four, was holding out for an eight, so I'll go home and..."
I think after that I'm going to play on the fact that simile sounds sort of like similarly.
But as to the question, I'm not sure. I'll think about it for a while. I'm thinking of all sorts of allusions and some similes, but no metaphors are popping into my head.
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Harpaholic
6 posts
Apr 02, 2010
5:25 PM
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"I'm a King Bee, buzzing round your hive"
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Nastyolddog
502 posts
Apr 02, 2010
5:49 PM
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Squeeze my lemons till juice run down my leg,
Don't like my Peaches don't shake my tree,
Last Edited by on Apr 02, 2010 5:51 PM
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JimInMO
43 posts
Apr 02, 2010
7:25 PM
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Not exactly a metaphor but I love the lines "red rooster says cock a doodle do, Richland woman says any dude will do". Richland Woman Blues- Mississippi john Hurt
Last Edited by on Apr 02, 2010 7:27 PM
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Oisin
517 posts
Apr 02, 2010
11:13 PM
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From "You've got Bad Blood Baby" by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee
"You've got Bad Blood baby...I believe you need a shot"
Why don't you turn over Darlin', let Dr Brownie see what you got"
And
"Now the needle is in you baby, put your leg up on the wall"
"I don't want you to miss any baby, I want you to have it all"
Pure filth! I love that song....every line in it is about making the beast with 2 backs.
You can listen to it here....
http://amiestreet.com/music/sonny-terry-and-brownie-mcghee/
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Nastyolddog
511 posts
Apr 04, 2010
5:48 AM
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Baby we Gunna wang Dang Doodle all Night Long,
Don't Put Your Finger where you won't put your Face,
you won't like the smell and sure you won't like the tast,
Yes Brothers and Sisters the Last 2 are actully lines from a song it's a female singer,
please don't aske me to find the album or Artist i have over 200 albums to serch :)
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JimInMO
44 posts
Apr 04, 2010
8:06 AM
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Oh man, I just remembered. Just about every tune Clarence Carter recorded. Kinda like "Granpa can't fly his kite no more cause grandma won't give him any tail."
Little Car Blues aka To Many Drivers comes to mind. More traditionally any lines referring to jelly or jellyroll.
Last Edited by on Apr 04, 2010 10:43 AM
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CaptainBolide
28 posts
Apr 04, 2010
8:52 AM
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I always liked listening to Bonnie Raitt go on about her back-bones...
"Oh they want me to rock them
like my back ain't got no bone
I want a man to rock me
like my… backbone was his own"
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Elwood
425 posts
Apr 04, 2010
11:53 AM
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Nasty beat me to it:
If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree/
Stay outta my orchard, and let my peach tree be.
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Murray. The smartist formerly known as Elwood.
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oldwailer
1176 posts
Apr 05, 2010
7:13 PM
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Screw the metaphors--I like it straight out and raw:
"The way we're going' now, my back and shoulders tired,
(X3)
Roll on over, I'll try it from the side." MJH--"Ain't No Tellin'."
"His stick a candy don't melt away,
It just gets better, so the ladies say."
"He got a stick a candy 'bout 9 inches long,
He sells it fast as a hog chewin corn."
"All the ladies, Mr. Jones has said,
They always take sticks a candy to bed."
MJH--"Candyman."
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jawbone
302 posts
Apr 05, 2010
8:12 PM
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I'm like a one-eyed cat peepin' in a seafood store
My little red rooster, too lazy to crow for days
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If it ain't got harp - it ain't really blues!!!!
Last Edited by on Apr 05, 2010 8:13 PM
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mojojojo
36 posts
Apr 05, 2010
8:34 PM
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Got these insights from a "Sing the Blues" video...
"Dust My Broom" refers to male "self-gratification"
"Fattening Frogs for Snakes" ...Go Sonny Boy!
There is also an album of blues songs with racy lyrics...can't remember the title.
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Blown Out Reed
98 posts
Apr 08, 2010
7:46 PM
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ELEVATE ME MAMA!
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eharp
614 posts
Apr 08, 2010
8:00 PM
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when she browns my sausage, she turns it round and round.
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Buzadero
315 posts
Apr 09, 2010
7:22 AM
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Long John Blues by Dinah Washington
I've got a dentist who's over seven feet tall
Yes I've got a dentist who's over seven feet tall
Long John they call him, and he answers every call
Well I went to Long Johns office and told him the pain was killin'
Yes I went to Long Johns office and told him the pain was killin'
He told me not to worry, that my cavity just needed fillin'
He said "when I start drillin', I'll have to give you novocaine"
He said, "Yes, when I start drillin', I'll have to give you novocaine
Cause ev'ry woman just can't stand the pain"
He took out his trusted drill
And he told me to open wide
He said he wouldn't hurt me
But he'd fill my hole inside
Long John, Long John, you've got that golden touch
You thrill me when you drill me, and I need you very much
When he got through, he said "Baby that will cost you ten"
Yes when he got through, he said "Baby that will cost you ten
Six months from now, come back and see me again"
Say you're supposed to see your dentist
'Bout twice a year, that's right
But I think I feel it bobbin'
Yes I'll go back there tonight
Long John, Long John, don't ever move away
Say I hope I keep on achin' so I can see you every day.
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~Buzadero
Underwater Janitor, Patriot
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Nastyolddog
523 posts
Apr 09, 2010
7:48 AM
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Yo Mo you say your vid mentions,
"Dust My Broom" refers to male "self-gratification
i may be wrong but my interpretation of this line
is when one Dusts there Broom it implys,
they are sweeping all there troubles away
cleaning up sweeping the floor clean,
starting over again if i was English
the line would go like this,
I will wake up in the morning and Sweep my troubles away it just don't sound right:)
Hers one for Ya what Does Elgin movement mean
cause she got it from her head down to her feet:)
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Nastyolddog
525 posts
Apr 09, 2010
8:09 AM
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Yo Budz you left one important factor out if you where trying to compliment a Lady:)
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oda
262 posts
Apr 09, 2010
9:06 AM
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I gotta look under your hood
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Delta Dirt
143 posts
Apr 09, 2010
12:05 PM
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"Nobody knows where the nose goes when the door close"
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MP
172 posts
Apr 10, 2010
12:50 PM
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said the rooster.. to the duck. you ain't good lookin' baby but you sure know how ta strut..stoop down baby, let your daddy see. you got somethin' down there. scare the hell out a me.
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jawbone
306 posts
Apr 10, 2010
8:51 PM
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@ nastyoldog - mojojojo has it right about dusting his broom
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If it ain't got harp - it ain't really blues!!!!
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Nastyolddog
528 posts
Apr 10, 2010
9:03 PM
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Bro we all have our interpretations,
i would listen to whole song it's,
so i guess if i where to listen to as you say
he is going to play with his self for the rest of his life,cause he don't need a woman that wants every down town man she meets,so he will just manhandle himself for the rest of his life:)
Last Edited by on Apr 11, 2010 12:31 AM
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Nastyolddog
529 posts
Apr 11, 2010
12:42 AM
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Yo Bro i lifted this info
(getting ready to ) leave. "T-man" Tilman Michalke concurs and says: I guess Mr. Johnson is cleaning his room because he is about to move out.
There might also be a sexual connotation.
Melissa Fazzina wrote:
I was listening to Elmore James the other day and Dust My Broom never seemed to make any sense to me,
but I had one of those sudden epiphanies....: it hit me that what he's talking about is probably (IMHO),
breaking up with his current girlfriend. So that "Dust my broom." maybe synonymous with "Shaking her off" or "shaking loose from her.
If you listen to the other words, "I'm quittin' the best gal I'm lovin'.
Now my friends can get in my room". Or "I'm gonna write her a letter" (a "dear Jane letter").
Then in the next verse, he's listing her short comings (why he'd want to cut her loose),
and in the final verse, coming right out and saying he's going to leave. Thanks to Melissa Fazinni
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mojojojo
41 posts
Apr 13, 2010
12:01 AM
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i don't want to get too deep into nasty lyrics...but the woman in the video pointed out the connotation and then said, "well how DO you dust a broom?" and she made the actual "jacking" motion!
This confused me, but then I remembered those old brooms which are long reeds tied together in a bundle on a stick. The title is not "Sweeping the Floor" but DUSTING the BROOM. The broom is not doing the sweeping, but is being cleaned off.
Now if you'll excuse I think I'll dust my chicken.
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