so, who *was* that in the kitchen with Dinah?

[ulysses]

And on whose banjo were they strummin'?

[Deja Q]

1. Wasn't my banjo. I've got a big cello.

[ulysses]

7. at the end of the day, it's still cat gut.

:D

[buddhamama]

2. it was this Lady

the banjo belonged to this guy
http://www.jazzage1920s.com/banjos/eddiepeabody/eddiepeabody.php

[ulysses]

8. eddie the banjoist

:scared:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. ...

:evilgrin:

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. Let's hope it wasn't these guys....

:scared:

[ulysses]

6. you shur got a purty mouth...

:D

[trof]

5. Someone

And that's about all we know.
Oh...he or she was a banjo player.
And a singer, of sorts.
"Fee fi, fiddly ei oooo"

[terrya]

9. It wes...someone.

I'm not sure we'll ever really know. :cry:

[ulysses]

11. guess it's been a while since it was first reported, huh?

[petronius]

10. Wasn't me - I was heading down to Louisiana with my banjo on my knee...

[ulysses]

12. the one making Suzannah cry was the other part of the puzzle.

:D

(I always heard that as "I come from Alabama with a banjo...)

[petronius]

17. Yeah, the narrarator is coming from Alabama, but he's heading

down to Louisiana to see his own true love... The lyrics are pretty impenetrable in that song, really, and there are a couple of verses/terms in what I take to be the early versions that are pretty racist by modern standards...

[ulysses]

18. ah, gotcha.

I don't think I've heard more than the first verse and chorus...

[trof]

13. Funny story about that.

Book reviewer was interviewing a southern author (might have been Winston Groom) at the author's home in Atlanta.
It was a nice afternoon and they were on the back deck.
Author was wearing shorts.

At the end of the interview the reviewer said "I noticed you have a tattoo on your knee. What is that?"
"It's a banjo."
"Uh, is there some significance to that? Do you play the banjo?"
"Naw, man...I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee."
barumph-bump
;-)

[ulysses]

15. I was in first grade in 1976

and we did a "Happy Birthday, America" play. Great fun, actually, and a hardcore exposure to a lot of faux Americana. Since moving to the south, I haven't once heard anyone refer to a peanut as a "goober pea". :eyes:

[Whoa_Nelly]

14. A not sure, but I think it was....

Burt Reynolds!

[ulysses]

16. not sure which photo scares me more

:D

[alphafemale]

19. I think in railroad speak - kitchen is the firebox and a banjo is a shovel

And Dinah is the trains engine.

So it could possibly be about the person singing while shoveling coal into the firebox. :shrug:

[ulysses]

22. killjoy.

;-) Actually, that's pretty interesting. Thanks. :hi:

[Lady Freedom]

23. OK then Who was in the firebox with the engine...

with the coal shovel?

[momophile]

20. was it someone who wasn't supposed to be there?

like the milkman lover?

[Lady Freedom]

24. But that don't make sense!

Why would a guy/gal that loves milkmen be in a firebox with an engine and a shovel?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

21. It was Burt Reynolds.

They got freaky in the kitchen.
Duckie