2026-11-06 19:47 UTC
In the song 'I've been working on the railroad, you have this:
Can't you hear the captain shoutin'
"Dinah, blow your horn?"
Dinah, won't you blow,
Dinah, won't you blow,
Dinah, won't you blow your horn, your horn?
OK, fair enough. Dinah must be a train.
But then, later on, we have this:
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
Strumming on the old banjo.
So, Dinah is either a train in the kitchen hanging out with a banjo player, or Dinah has suddenly become a person, and Dinah's horn is perhaps a trumpet. Still, a trumpet and a banjo is an odd combination, and not something you would expect to have in a kitchen.
Those must have been some wild times back then.
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@fastfinge@fed.interfree.ca 2026-11-06 21:25
@BorrisInABox@fwoof.space So...that's, uh, no. That's not what the song is about. The lyrics are oblique references to something else. To put it as bluntly as possible: The "horn" the captain wants blown is his penis. The banjo someone is in the kitchen strummin' on is her vagina. So first the captain wants a blowjob. But then someone else is in the kitchen with her, getting her off. Probably while he's been away workin' on the railroad all the live long day. Sorry to ruin your childhood!