tim, i'm chastened ...scholarship is redeemed thanks, bob -----Original Message----- From: Tim Bray <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 12:51 AM Subject: Re: discussions... >At 10:27 PM 3/28/00 -0500, bob scheetz wrote: >>...the derivation (of boojwa) i had in mind >>was leadbelly's "boojwa town" >>...vastly more expressive, >>precisely for being so indecorus a locution, >>than the frenchie original, no? > >Except for, Mr. Ledbetter did not feel it cramped his style to use >language straightforwardly, and entitled that song "Bourgeois Blues." >For my money, Ry Cooder owns that tune now. -T.