And Sam Jones preached the low country to him so straight he took them niggers all down there Monday morning and bought all that whiskey and poured it in the river. He had six steamboats on the Cumberland River and you ought to have seen that wharf just lined with horses and mules and wagons hauling freight to those boats and bringing it back. Now that tabernacle what was built down there where we play, Rev'rend Sam Jones converted Cap'n Tom Ryman. There's nothing to do but to sit down and singĪccording to Charles Wolfe, Macon recalled:
The engineer going to a hole in the wall, Mansfield was killed in a car accident when she was 34: 'Now she's breakin' hearts in heaven. She was often compared to Marilyn Monroe, and also died young. Oh, rockabout my Saro Jane, oh rockabout my Saro Jane,Įngine give a scratch and the whistle gave a squall This song is about Jayne Mansfield, a blonde bombshell who was a popular actress and pin-up girl in the '50s and '60s. The words to this version go:īut Sam Jones sent him to the heavenly land, Macon did not commercially record this version, but he allowed Boswell to record him privately. Mike Yates reports on interviews with Macon toward the end of his life by Tennessee folklorist George Worley Boswell (1920-1995), and describes a related song sung by Macon that was based on "Rockabout my Saro Jane." The protagonist was Tom Ryman (1843–1904), who in 1892 built the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, home from 1943 to 1974 of the Grand Ole Opry (although originally opened as the Union Gospel Tabernacle). Songfacts: This autobiographical song written by Sugarcane Jane's singer and guitarist, Anthony Crawford, tells the story of how he met his bandmate and wife Savana Lee Crawford in Nashville, Tennessee. The engineer gone to the hole in the wall
#BALLAD OF JANE MEANING CRACK#
Oh, there's nothing to do but to sit down and singīoiler busted and the whistle done blowedĮngine gave a crack and the whistle gave a squall Ballads were traditionally sung or recited within rural communities in a form known as the traditional. The etymology of balade can be dated even further back to the Latin word, ballare, which means to dance. 'Ballad' is derived from an old French word, balade, which means a song that people dance to. Believe I'll take a trip on the big MacMillan The word 'ballad' is pronounced 'bal - lad'.
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