wallyk wrote:
> 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?
Aren't "yankees" the "northern" americans, ie. the ones who were on
Lincoln's side in the Civil War (excuse my profound ignorance of American
history here)!
That being the case, I've always assumed the "yankee yachts" were yachts
from the US, owned by rich North-based Americans taking a little jaunt up
the coast, to check out their "poor Canadian cousins" - no offence intended
to my Canadian friends here, I think Joni was very tongue-in-cheek when she
wrote this line. To be more specific, she wrote:
"Some watch their stocks and bonds
Waiting for that big deal American Dream
I took my dream down by the sea
Yankee yachts and lobster pots and sunshine
And logs and sails
And Shell Oil pails
Dogs and tugs and summertime
Back in the banquet line
Angry young people crying"
I know they're two different verses, but they seem to flow together quite
nicely - the rich Americans on their fancy yachts, eating lobster in the
sunshine while the workers catch the lobsters, drill for the oil, and their
kids quite often go hungry...
My $0.02 worth at this late hour!
Hell
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