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lowbridge
I was playing Minnie the Moocher, classic Blues Brothers song
I think of it as a classic Cab Calloway song
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06/29/2013 5:18:28 PM PDT
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Fiji Hill
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do you know what Minnie the Moocher is really about ?
The character "Smokey" is described as "cokey", meaning a user of cocaine; the phrase "kicking the gong around" was a slang reference to smoking opium.
Minnie the Moocher
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06/29/2013 5:36:55 PM PDT
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Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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