Re: [Harp-L] "Fattening Frogs For Snakes"...whats that all about?!?!?

[billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx]

The song is about how he was getting ripped off by the record people and music industry, he finally got wise. Of course, he couldn't come right out and say that, or the record would never have seen the light of day. Guess who the 'snakes' are :-)

Bill Hines

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From: "Nate in the Blues Room" <thebluesroom@xxxxxxxxx>
> For the longest time I've wondered what Sonny Boy Williamson 2 was on
> about, I mean what was the guy thinking when he penned this song? Anyone
> have any insights to his thinking on this one? Was he using local phrases,
> jargon or sayings or creating them? Anyone?
> **
> *"It took me a long time, to find out my mistakes
> Took me a long time, to find out my mistakes
> (it sho' did man)
> But I bet you my bottom dollar, I'm not fattenin' no more frogs for snakes
> 
> "I found out my downfall, back in nineteen and thirty
> (I started checkin')
> I found out my downfall, from nineteen and thirty
> I'm tellin' all of my friends, I'm not fattenin' no more frogs for snakes
> 
> All right now... (solo)
> 
> "Yeh it is nineteen and fifty-seven, I've got to correct all of my mistakes
> Whoa man, nineteen and fifty-seven, I've got to correct all of my mistakes
> I'm tellin' my friends includin' my wife and everybody else,
> not fattenin' no more frogs for snakes
> *
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