Under The Fleece Of Me

Highlights tonight on Tonic include a mix of bossa nova and rock & roll, from Glambeats Corp with their version of You Could Be Mine. Also what has been described as a "heart-rending version" of My Cryin' Eyes, (and I should hope it would be, given it's not, like, My Laughin' Eyes, after all), from Divine Brown. And Montreal's Doxas brothers push back the boundaries with their take on Cole Porter's Night And Day.

Speaking of, I've always wondered about the "under the hide of me" line in Night And Day. "Deep in the heart," yes, but "under the hide?" Seems somehow, well, not so romantic.

Ring Lardner, who you may remember from his BASEBALL writing (it's been a while since I've been able to work baseball into the blog, thus the happy CAPS), apparently found the whole song amusing -- he did a number of parodies, including lines like: "Night and day, under the fleece of me / There’s an oh, such a flaming furneth burneth the grease of me."