The Real Story Behind the Song: Mr. Bojangles

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In New Orleans, if you go to jail, you go to Orleans Parish Prison. This is in fact, the “ The House of the rising Sun”. It’s called that locally, or used to be, because the windowed cells faced east. I remember when you could stand on the street and throw contraband to the inmates. I also remember seeing Jerry Jeff play on the streets in New Orleans before he made it big. So, the song should have said: “ but most the time I spend behind these parish walls, cause I drinks a bit”. Louisiana has parishes and not counties. Orleans parish prison is really a county jail, or equivalent to a county jail. Not a prison. If you get sent to prison, you end up most likely at Angola. The “Big House”. New Orleans is not the ”B😢ig Easy”. that’s some kind of marketing bullshit that came out about the 80s. Before that you never heard it call that by the locals. The coon asses from around that area that could get to New Orleans called it ”Gros Ville”, (big town) for slang. In New Orleans on the street there were always some old black cats (when I live there) that would tap dance for change., and little kids too. That’s likely where this came from. The song was real enough. Jerry Jeff captured it pretty damn well, I knew exactly what he was talking about and where he was coming from. I remember after he got big, I recognized him from having been on the streets. Now that was real.

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