The meaning for the full version as posted by MinuteWalt:
It's a story about a woman called Minnie. She was a hoochie-coocher, a kind of provocative dancer, and the first verse says that even though she was all rough and tough she was very kind.The guy she was in love with was a coke head, and he took her to Chinatown and taught her how to smoke Opium. She had dreams about a man who could buy her everything she wanted, and she would have so much free time that she could sit around all day and count the piles of money she'd have. Minnie and Smoky started driving around and smoking marijuana, I guess they stole a car and got arrested. Minnie gave him money to pay her bail but he ran off with it and left her in jail. (A rhyme, yay :P)She met a religious man, and he told her to rethink her life. She tried to tempt him with her body. Needless to say, it didn't work. Then she was put into a mental asylum, where she died.
Basically the whole song is saying Minnie is a poor girl who got in with the wrong crowd and made some bad decisions, but at heart she was kind, and we should feel sorry for her.
The line "They got a free ride in a wagon" isn't referring to a stolen car. It's for the slang "Paddy Wagon" meaning a police van. It comes from "Paddy" as a reference to the stereo-type of policemen as being of Irish decent, and the old vans of the 30's and 40's were often panel wagons.
The line "They got a free ride in a wagon" isn't referring to a stolen car. It's for the slang "Paddy Wagon" meaning a police van. It comes from "Paddy" as a reference to the stereo-type of policemen as being of Irish decent, and the old vans of the 30's and 40's were often panel wagons.
The meaning for the full version as posted by MinuteWalt:
It's a story about a woman called Minnie. She was a hoochie-coocher, a kind of provocative dancer, and the first verse says that even though she was all rough and tough she was very kind.The guy she was in love with was a coke head, and he took her to Chinatown and taught her how to smoke Opium. She had dreams about a man who could buy her everything she wanted, and she would have so much free time that she could sit around all day and count the piles of money she'd have. Minnie and Smoky started driving around and smoking marijuana, I guess they stole a car and got arrested. Minnie gave him money to pay her bail but he ran off with it and left her in jail. (A rhyme, yay :P)She met a religious man, and he told her to rethink her life. She tried to tempt him with her body. Needless to say, it didn't work. Then she was put into a mental asylum, where she died. Basically the whole song is saying Minnie is a poor girl who got in with the wrong crowd and made some bad decisions, but at heart she was kind, and we should feel sorry for her.
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The line "They got a free ride in a wagon" isn't referring to a stolen car. It's for the slang "Paddy Wagon" meaning a police van. It comes from "Paddy" as a reference to the stereo-type of policemen as being of Irish decent, and the old vans of the 30's and 40's were often panel wagons.
The line "They got a free ride in a wagon" isn't referring to a stolen car. It's for the slang "Paddy Wagon" meaning a police van. It comes from "Paddy" as a reference to the stereo-type of policemen as being of Irish decent, and the old vans of the 30's and 40's were often panel wagons.