Mountain's Mississippi Queen: Do You Know What I Mean?

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Really, this has baffled me for years. Am I supposed to know what he means? Is it just that whom ever this woman is, she's trampy and does "it"?

"Mississippi Queen, You know what I mean
Mississippi Queen, She taught me everything
Went down around Dick's place, around Louisiana way
Where lived the Cajun Lady, aboard the Mississippi Queen
You know she was a dancer. She moved better on wine

While the rest of them dudes were gettin' their kicks
Boy, I beg your pardon, I was gettin' mine

Mississippi Queen, If you know what I mean
Mississippi Queen, She taught me everything
This lady she asked me, if I would be her man
You know that I told her, I'd do what I can
To keep her lookin' pretty, buy her dresses that shine

While the rest of them dudes were makin' their friends
Boy, I beg your pardon, I was loosin' mine

You know she was a dancer. She moved better on wine

While the rest of them dudes were gettin' their kicks
Boy, I beg your pardon, I was gettin' mine

Yeah, Mississippi Queen"

― derekerdman (Derek Erdmany), Saturday, 4 November 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

it's just a song, man.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Saturday, 4 November 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh don't play dumb, you know what I mean.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 4 November 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

"She moved better on wine." Another one for the "Ahh, so THAT'S what that line is?!?!" files.

Always loved this song. Great riff, great cowbell.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

While the rest of them dudes were gettin' their kicks
Boy, I beg your pardon, I was gettin' mine

That's the line I never understood - "When I'm gettin bad food and I'm gettin their kiss - put it in your pocket now I'm gettin mine!"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

In the liner notes to the reish of the first proper Mountain album (Climbing!), Corky Laing tells a funny story about how he wrote it.

(In Paraphrase: He was riffing on a theme at a house party he was playing at with his pre-Mountain combo while watching his buddy dance with a drunk girl from the south. Laing improvised some words to try to win over said girl, but by then his friend "had moved into...her dress")

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

"Was down around Vicksburg" (noted riverboat city on the Mississippi where it borders Louisiana)

Dick's place? What's up with that?

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

he's talking about Mary Fitton, a lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth, whose identity he'd need to conceal for obvious reasons

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

he's talking about Mary Fitton, a lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth, whose identity he'd need to conceal for obvious reasons
-- Thomas Tallis (tallis4...), November 6th, 2006.

Of COURSE!

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

I skimmed past Dick's Place; I'm pretty sure that should be Vicksburg.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

another vote for "Vicksburg"

― Will (will), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

"Buddy, beg your pardon" no?

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Internet lyrics are always correct - how dare you challenge them?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/LeslieWest.jpg
beg your pardon?

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZEcNpcTwUM

― buzza, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:16 (fourteen years ago)

a+++++ song

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:18 (fourteen years ago)

On June 20, 2011 West had his lower right leg amputated as a result of complications from diabetes.

: (

― buzza, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:20 (fourteen years ago)

The lyrics of this song are suddenly striking me as way better than I ever thought

― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:25 (fourteen years ago)

know you know what he means

― buzza, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:27 (fourteen years ago)

now

― buzza, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:27 (fourteen years ago)

wow at the whole Pappalardi shooting - i vaguely remember details at the time but really seems like it was murder

― buzza, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:44 (fourteen years ago)

I remember hearing this on the car radio as a kid. Being from Chicago way, we used to get excited when a real blues rock song came on. Sorry to sound pedantic and boring, I always saw the meaning as, "we learned everything from the blues".

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:01 (fourteen years ago)

Revived because of Regular Show, I presume? Mississippi Queen sequence begins around 9:00.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4HN98fLxUo

― beachville, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 13:35 (fourteen years ago)

yeah my kids were watching it

― buzza, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 15:07 (fourteen years ago)

http://youtu.be/ZaM6lTmhnak

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 15:59 (fourteen years ago)

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