Have YOU Ever Heard?

Isenglass for window glass, and she looks so country she can tell you how long a Sears catalogue lasts in a three hole outhouse?

A good many expressions have inadvertently been passed on to me by my father from his father and grandfather...mostly Old South expressions, probably common to all races at the time. Getting older, I fondly recall them. Blueberry is my name here but I never wrote a train song as mentioned in Waylon and Willie's "Lukenbach Texas".

Speaking of Waylon...he survived the airplane crash that killed Richie Valens, Filipino singer, Big Bopper (whose son also has a career and Bopper's grave is a tour guide delight in the small Texas town I cannot recall) and Buddy Holly, whose statue is in Lubbock, Texas. Seems that Waymore, as he likes to be called, got the long straw or whatever determined that he not get to take the plane. Big Bopper is said to have crawled a sizable distance from the wreckage before he died.

Valens, known for "Oh Donna" and "La Bamba" was at least half Filipino, I'm told. Big Bopper was best known for "Chantilly Lace" and giving Jerry Lee Lewis a run for the roses.

Buddy Holly was immortalized in Gary Busy's movie about the life of the BIG star and many rock songs "Well All Right", "Oh Boy", and that smash hit, "That'll Be the Day" were just a few. Holly would have been HUGE, like Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison, had he survived. His legacy still lives on! I don't think he and Teresa had any children, however.

You may be wondering how I got off-topic from the Eisenglass and Old South expressions. You can submit some if you like or place them in the comments or "comments" section.