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  • bilby I wonder if Gentleman Jim might have been a sort of generic gentleman. Consider these lyrics from Hurricane:

    You'll be doing society a favor
    That sonofabitch is brave and getting braver
    We want to put his ass in stir
    We want to pin this triple murder on him
    He ain't no Gentleman Jim.
    - Bob Dylan.

    Admittedly these two songs come from quite separate eras, with Haul Away being a folk song based on the laments of convicts transported by sailing ship from Britain to Australia in the 1800s. Although one suspects that in folk music a century or two might be skipped pretty quickly. Dec 23, 2012

  • ruzuzu That was a great question. Looking it up led me to the Marquess of Queensberry rules, which sounds an awful lot like something that would show up in a game of Mornington Crescent. Dec 23, 2012

  • ry songs like that are usually about a real person aren't they? So who was Gentleman Jim? Dec 23, 2012

  • bilby Once I was a kind of young ambassador for my country. A group of 16 of us ponced around Indonesia doing 'cultural exchanges' where we did things like sing:
    This is the story of Gentleman Jim
    Somebody threw a tomato at him.
    Now tomatoes don't hurt if they have a thin skin,
    but this 'ere tomato was wrapped in a tin.
    Haul away!
    Haul away!
    From Melbourne to Sydney's a bloody long way.

    I wonder what the Indonesians made of that? Dec 19, 2012