Wally,
What a great song to pick! I always thought that "yankee yachts" in Joni's
context might have meant American leisure-class boaters (tourists) who
wandered into British Columbian waters on weekends. The term "yankee" has
long been a catch-all term used by people from other countries for any
American regardless of regional origin. Don't the British call us "Yanks"?
In Mexico they have been known to call us "Yanquis" Maybe this ties into
the song - here are these affluent yachters floating by and no doubt
polluting the beautiful shoreline with their discarded paper plates and
Javex bottles. And then we have the Shell Oil pails. Fat bellies and
hungry little ones. "Waiting for that big deal - American dream" - hmmm,
she probably is thinking of "Damn Yankees" here. ;-)
Kakki
> i'll be using ''banquet'' for language analysis with my friday classes.
what
> are ''yankee yachts'' as mentioned in the song?
> by the way, ranger rick's comments on ''javex bottles on the tide'' will
be
> so very useful!
> so what are these yankee yachts? yachts with lots of people from boston?
> wallyK, vicariously in dear british columbia
