hold her Newt
tinwhistler
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/42/messages/570.html
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.. Hold her Newt, she's a headin' for the meadow ...... Has anyone
ever heard this phrase used and in what context? I seem to remember my
grandmother saying this when we kids were getting out of hand - maybe
in reference to a horse needing to be restrained from bolting away?
Thanks for any insight. .. [no pertinent replies]
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.. The source/origin of the phrase: "Hold her, Knute, she's a
buckin'." Variations of the phrase appear to include "she's headed for
the
rhubarb" and "she's headin' for the timber." (89) ..
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.. I always associated it with Sadie Green as recorded by Turk Murphy
on a rare old
record called Dancing Jazz. "She'd make a bald man tear his hair/ Hold
her
Newt, Don't let her rair [sic]." ..
On NPR today I heard Richard Lederer and Martha Barnett saying that
variants on the 'hold her Newt' phrase go back to the 1920s, and
that there was a governor of Louisiana who composed a song with that
title and lyrics - but I couldn't find any support for such on the
net. Anyone?
Frank ess
Was the Governor Jimmy "You Are My Sunshine" Davis?
"Hold 'er Newt" was part of my group's pocket change when I was in my
early teens, 1949-52. Don't remember any specifics. Likely Red Skelton
kind of humor made it currency.
--
Frank ess
tinwhistler
Frank ess wrote:
>
> Was the Governor Jimmy "You Are My Sunshine" Davis?
>
> "Hold 'er Newt" was part of my group's pocket change when I was in my
> early teens, 1949-52. Don't remember any specifics. Likely Red Skelton
> kind of humor made it currency.
It was Jimmy Davis according to Lederer & Barnett -- thanks. I'm off
on a trip for two weeks and won't be able to participate further in
this thread (darn!). I was 12 in 1949 and by then had been hearing for
years a lyric on the Mutual radio network with "Hold 'er Knute, come on
Klute, here comes Johnny and the dance band" -- or something like that.
Mike Lyle
m.j.m...@bradford.ac.uk wrote:
> x-no-archive: yes
>
> I call him Tiny.
>
> Because he's my newt.
>
Well spotted! I'm good with my newty eye, too. If you ax a lotl from
your self, you'll get a lotl.
Sal A. Mander.
Peter Moylan
You remind me of a kid who was in the same class as I was in primary
school. He was much bigger than anyone else in the class. We called
him Atlas, because he always went bareheaded.
--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Please note the changed e-mail and web addresses. The domain
eepjm.newcastle.edu.au no longer exists, and I can no longer
reliably receive mail at my newcastle.edu.au addresses.
The optusnet address still has about 3 months of life left.
Frank ess
That lyric isn't ringing a bell.
Jimmy Davis was re-running for Governor when I was in Bossier City,
late 1950s. I chanced upon a campaign stop at a mall parking lot. Two
18-wheelers rolled up, a flatbed and a big closed van. They were
quickly converted to stage and back-stage, a fleet of Cadillacs
arrived and discharged a country band who entertained for fifteen
minutes. Jimmy came along in a "suicide-door" Lincoln, mounted the
stage, sang a couple songs, said a few words, and stepped down to a
position near the back of the big van. There on a table his crew had
set out hundreds of small paper cups, and were pouring shots of
whiskey.
Form a line, pick up your drink, shake Jimmy's hand, move along, as
the workers dismantled the stage and packed equipment. As the last few
campaignees tilted their cups, all the flash disappeared in the Cads
and Lincoln, the trucks buttoned up and dieseled away.
Gone in 45 minutes, I'd guess, although it seemed shorter. One of my
pals followed the trucks to the next stop, maybe five miles away,
over-river in Shreveport, where he saw the same show, word-for-word,
and had another shot.
A few days later I had a few drinks with a man who was busy buying a
couple Tennessee Walker horses from a fellow on the other side of me.
They had known each other for 25 minutes when the former passed a
check for $6,900 (three horses at $2,300 each, sight unseen) through
my hands to the seller. Name on the check was "Palmer Long", brother
of the current Long governor, Crazy Earl, both sons of fabled Huey
"Kingfish".
I have some kind of luck with Governors: I was in Little Rock when
Faubus called out the National Guard to protect the citizens from the
Feds. His little entourage was too slow driving down 12th, so I passed
them on the right, signaled his limo with the Holy Mystic Sign, and
eluded his patrolmen. The brash youth in his distinctive MG TD got
away with it.
--
Frank ess
Draining the world supply of hyphens
Use 'em if you got 'em
Robert Lieblich
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> First, please consider three webpages:
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> http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/42/messages/570.html
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> [excerpt]
> .. Hold her Newt,
[ ... ]
Interesting. I wonder if the newt is anywhere near the now. Perhaps
one can hold her newt even as one is kissing her now.[1] Or does it
take a contortionist to do that?
Rey?
[1] As in the song "I wonder who's kissing her now."
--
Bob Lieblich
Look it up in your Gray's Anatomy
Jeffrey Turner
> tinwhistler wrote:
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>>First, please consider three webpages:
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>>http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/42/messages/570.html
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>>[excerpt]
>> .. Hold her Newt,
>
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Interesting. I wonder if the newt is anywhere near the now. Perhaps
> one can hold her newt even as one is kissing her now.[1] Or does it
> take a contortionist to do that?
Why would you need to be a contortionist? You don't even have
to lean as far as if you were holding her cat.
--Jeff
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imaginary dangers from abroad."
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