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NEWS of the Intoxicated Rat DigiTrad: INTOXICATED RAT Related threads: (origins) Origins:Mouse on the Barroom Floor/Intoxicated Rat (45) Lyr Add: Intoxicated Mouse (18)
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Subject: NEWS of the Intoxicated Rat From: Sandy Paton Date: 21 Sep 99 - 10:39 PM When folklore becomes reality: I thought that a few of you might have missed this gem from "News of the Weird" in today's newspapers. For the sake of those who know "The Intoxicated Rat" from the singing of Cisco Houston or Doc Watson, I quote: No longer weird: Adding to the list of stories that were formerly weird but which now occur with such frequency that they must be retired from circulation: The dog that steps on his master's gun, on the trigger, causing the gun to fire and hit the master, sometimes fatally, as happened to a 51-year-old man in the town of Bad Urach, Germany, in August. And the pack of animals that breaks into a liquor storage area, drinks up, and then goes on a drunken rampage, as happened in March and April with rats (moonshine at a police station) and monkeys (liquor samples in a government testing lab) in New Delhi, India. (Authorities could tell the rats were drunk because they were attacking cats.) There you go. As the song says: "Bring on the goddamned cat!" Sandy |
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Subject: RE: NEWS of the Intoxicated Rat From: katlaughing Date: 21 Sep 99 - 11:08 PM I love it, Sandy! One of the first songs I ever asked about on here was the Mouse On The Barroom Floor. luvyaKat |
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Subject: RE: NEWS of the Intoxicated Rat From: unclenort Date: 22 Sep 99 - 01:32 AM where's that old tomcat *hicup* i could wup him an his bruther!! |
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Subject: RE: NEWS of the Intoxicated Rat From: Dale Rose Date: 22 Sep 99 - 01:47 AM How about Howard and Dorsey Dixon's version of Intoxicated Rat, about 1936? It is my understanding that Wade Mainer and Dorsey Dixon co-authored the song. I would think it would be quite likely that Doc Watson would have learned his version from the Dixon Brothers, given his interest in the old 78s. |
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Subject: RE: NEWS of the Intoxicated Rat From: katlaughing Date: 22 Sep 99 - 01:54 AM Here's a LINK to my original thread, asking for a tune to go with the words I'd found in an Irish store in Mystic, CT. kat |
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Subject: RE: NEWS of the Intoxicated Rat From: Stewie Date: 22 Sep 99 - 02:19 AM Dale Rose Yes, on the RCA Heritage Series reissue album 'Are you from Dixie?', authorship is given as Wade Mainer/Dorsey Dixon. The session details are: Charlotte NC, Feb 12 1936. The NLCR also did a version on their 1962 'Moonshine and Prohibition' album. |
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