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To: lowbridge
I was playing Minnie the Moocher, classic Blues Brothers song

I think of it as a classic Cab Calloway song

8 posted on 06/29/2013 5:18:28 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill
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
29 posted on 06/29/2013 5:36:55 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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