Experience (I Learned About...)

DESCRIPTION: "I've taken my jolts as I got 'em, I've strong-armed and prowled in my time," eventually earning hard labor, "And I learned about likker from that." He "met an old con from Chicago... And I learned about shootin' from him." And so on through other lessons
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Irwin, American Tramp and Underworld Slang, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: fight drink prison love derivative | learning
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 324, "Experience" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "I Learned about Horses from HIm" (theme)
cf. "I Learned about Horses from Her" (theme)
NOTES [24 words]: This, and all the items in the cross-references, are clearly modelled after Kipling's poem "The Ladies" ("I Learned about Women from Her"). - RBW
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File: LDC324

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