What is it about the hobo, barrel-over-the-falls, hardscrabble, flotsam-and-jetsam, freak circus and sea chanty family of words that carries so much magic? As songs, maybe it’s that the subjects write themselves. Because people actually did go over Niagara Falls in oak and iron bung-holed barrels, and children actually did run away to join the circus. Of course they did. Sometimes Daddy is a drunk and momma is a comfort girl. But Cajun dancehall…
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