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Front-Ranger:
Time to revive this thread!

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 26, 2009, 08:06:31 pm ---Well, he was obviously drinking sumpthun when he wrote this, but I'm not sure if it was gin or rye whiskey!! I'd like to know so I can imbibe sumpthun to help me finish up a little ditty I'd like to get composed before Valentine's Day!
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I suspect that she's drinking scotch whiskey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_whisky

"Gin" here is not gin the spirituous liquor. Apparently it's Scottish dialect for "if." Try substituting: "If a body meet a body/ Comin'  thro' the rye,/ If a body kiss a body,/ Need a body cry?" My guess is that it's a "hard" G.


--- Quote ---And, Jeff, some interpretation please...he is writing about a woman named Louise who is wearing a bonnet? Or is she a bonnie lass, hehe?

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FRiend, do your spectacles need wiping? That's not LOUISE, that's LOUSE.

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