Julie is a dog. She caught a rabbit and is bringing it back to her master prancing “stepping like to walk on air” the way dogs do when they are proud of something and want to show their owner. The owner( jimmy probably) tells her to “get back home where you belong and don’t you run off no more”. There used to be a jukebox is town( probably in the rural South USA) but due to the Great Depression and hard times or a strict Southern religion that didn’t abide by what they considered frivolous behavior( dancing etc to that “bad/devil” music) they took the jukebox down. Now that they had no jukebox the young people went to the local swimming hole for fun. Probably the most common way to get to the swimming hole was by rowing up the river (rather than walking). There was an old grass shack at the swimming hole where they drank, had sex etc. Good hang out place. The swimming hole had a high bank for jumping off. Jimmy was challenged with a half dollar dare to do a “double twist when you hit the air”. Probably was during the depression as money didn’t buy as much as it did before and it seems 1/2 of what they thought they had was gone==== but they could still have fun in this rural setting by going to the swimming hole.
Julie is a dog. She caught a rabbit and is bringing it back to her master prancing “stepping like to walk on air” the way dogs do when they are proud of something and want to show their owner. The owner( jimmy probably) tells her to “get back home where you belong and don’t you run off no more”. There used to be a jukebox is town( probably in the rural South USA) but due to the Great Depression and hard times or a strict Southern religion that didn’t abide by what they considered frivolous behavior( dancing etc to that “bad/devil” music) they took the jukebox down. Now that they had no jukebox the young people went to the local swimming hole for fun. Probably the most common way to get to the swimming hole was by rowing up the river (rather than walking). There was an old grass shack at the swimming hole where they drank, had sex etc. Good hang out place. The swimming hole had a high bank for jumping off. Jimmy was challenged with a half dollar dare to do a “double twist when you hit the air”. Probably was during the depression as money didn’t buy as much as it did before and it seems 1/2 of what they thought they had was gone==== but they could still have fun in this rural setting by going to the swimming hole.