"Cracklin' Rosie you're a store bought woman/but you make me sing like a guitar hummin'"
What does "store bought" mean in such a context? Is it meant to be a pejorative? "Cracklin' Rosie" makes it sound that way. Other than in Neil's hit, I've hardly heard it used.
ixnay
"Cracklin' Rosie you're a store bought woman/but you make me sing like a guitar hummin'"
What does "store bought" mean in such a context? Is it meant to be a pejorative? "Cracklin' Rosie" makes it sound that way. Other than in Neil's hit, I've hardly heard it used.
ixnay
It's about drinking a bottle of rosé wine.
Yep, and the song is written from the point of view of a bum. The line "Hitchin' on a twilight train" makes that pretty obvious. I wonder if he ran into Brook Benton in that boxcar musing about the Georgia rain and how it must be "rainin' all over the world."
Rich Appel played Cracklin' Rosie during a show featuring songs about food and drink in November 2019- the "Thanksgiving 30 Countdown." It was played back to back with Red Red Wine by UB40 (a Neil Diamond cover of course), and during the same hour as Elderberry Wine by Elton John. So it's quite clear what the song is about.Yep, and the song is written from the point of view of a bum. The line "Hitchin' on a twilight train" makes that pretty obvious. I wonder if he ran into Brook Benton in that boxcar musing about the Georgia rain and how it must be "rainin' all over the world."
The way I heard it explained - "Cracklin' Rosie" isn't a woman at all - it is a bottle of booze. So the whole song is about a hobo getting drunk on a bottle of cheap wine.