100 :: Hip, Hip Hooray :: A Slow Drag with "A Slow Drag with Josephine"

Today’s slow drag is with “A Slow Drag with Josephine” from “National Ransom,” released in 2010. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

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Show Notes:

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Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Linguist Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

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References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “A Slow Drag with Josephine” http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/A_Slow_Drag_With_Josephine

“A Slow Drag with Josephine” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1II-SELD9k

Gavotte, Baroque Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0tB2rGh1kM

Gavotte definition: https://www.britannica.com/art/gavotte

Garrotes Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C32zAHaIJt4

Garrote (method of torture by strangulation) definition: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/garrote

Cotillions, definition and difference: https://www.astoriabanquets.com/difference-between-a-cotillion-and-a-debutante-ball.htm

Cotillion Dance example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvItgHeD2EU

Arabesque: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmRrfm1ihGg

Arabesque in Dance, definition: https://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3farndo.htm

Farandole dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzUeMwM9CCQ

Farandole dance definition: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/farandole

Slow Drag Dance Moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lFWWheBVuA

A bit of The Slow Drag Dance history: https://atomicballroom.com/blog/2011/05/17/slow-it-down-with-slow-drag/

“Tango Till You’re Sore, Tom Waits from the seminal “Rain Dogs”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjLBWJutzEI

“Flirtation – Dominica’s Traditional Dance”: https://dominicaexplorer.com/dominica/dominica-traditional-dances/flirtation-dance/

“Flirtation Two Step: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtj-SFouB6o

Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday”

 

"A Slow Drag with Josephine" Lyrics: 

The snitch, the snoop, the tattletale

Lead a threadbare up the stairs

Adieu, my little ballyhoo

You broke my heart in two

And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs

She went home to gather her comb

And caught him unawares

 

And there was a man enjoying the lay of the land

He took a walk in the dark with a dish from the stand

Girls and their creations

Tied in the brightest grenadine

But I'd take all that I've seen

For a Slow Drag with Josephine

 

Josephine, Josephine

But I'd trade all that I've seen for a Slow Drag with Josephine

 

Gavottes, garrotes, Cotillions and slow Arabesques

Drum-rolls and Farandoles were all made in jest

But when you make that move

I can't resist

When will you declare your armistice?

 

Josephine, Josephine

But I'd trade all that I've seen for a Slow Drag with Josephine

 

In another time and place a different fate was cast

He tried to skeddle-daddle-do

She might have slapped him

Just for saying "Grant one more chance before you pass"

"Then curse the nurse that named me the first or bury me at last"

 

And in three-quarter time

The true and the false

Dancing the "Hesitation Waltz"

Then comes the "Flirtation"

And temptation

Hip, hip hooray

Listen to what I say

Then you can take it away…