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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Did the male singer slip her a mickey, or did he just pour a strong drink?

"Say what's in this drink?"

A Bill Cosby special?

18 posted on 12/05/2018 7:44:32 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35
A Bill Cosby special?

Maybe, but good old Uncle Bill would probably skip most of the sweet talk and go straight for the drugs.

I don't think that's what is implied in the song. If it is, I find it hard to believe that no one picked up on it for 70 years and after about two-score cover versions. There's even a Lawrence Welk version of this: they kept the part about her agreeing to half a drink more, but took out her having another cigarette. Besides, I think the woman wants to stay --she had had a good time and his persuasion was also working-- and her objections to the man are also her thinking out loud about the reasons she shouldn't stay. "What's in this drink?" was apparently a common expression in the 40s used when people wanted to blame their actions on having had too strong a drink or too much of it.

I like the song, especially Dean Martin's version, because I find the style interesting. I could get through Christmas without it, though, because it is passes as a Christmas song only because the popular observation of Christmas has become more and more centered on winter party time and less and less centered on --well--Christ.

36 posted on 12/05/2018 10:08:25 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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