ok I am absolutly sure this has to be slang for something as the name keeps cropping up in folk/blues/raggae music.
to be exact:
midnight Special: leadbelly
Bad Boys (theme song for cops)
ballad of billy the kid
various outlaw ballads
I shot the sheriff: bob marley
and other musical refrences. where the hell does the name originally come from and what does it mean besides a hard ass merciless cop?
"Sheriff John Brown"
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"Sheriff John Brown"
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It could refer to a John Brown who failed to incite a major slave revolt in the American South in the 1850s (I think), but that wouldn't make too much sense. Maybe one of those songs was the first to use the term and other songs followed suit as an homage, like the name "Major Tom."
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Major Tom? I came across a rather interesting sounding MIDI with that name but could never figure out where the name came from.StarshipTitanic wrote:It could refer to a John Brown who failed to incite a major slave revolt in the American South in the 1850s (I think), but that wouldn't make too much sense. Maybe one of those songs was the first to use the term and other songs followed suit as an homage, like the name "Major Tom."
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Ground control, to Major Tom...
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Here you go.RogueIce wrote:Major Tom? I came across a rather interesting sounding MIDI with that name but could never figure out where the name came from.StarshipTitanic wrote:It could refer to a John Brown who failed to incite a major slave revolt in the American South in the 1850s (I think), but that wouldn't make too much sense. Maybe one of those songs was the first to use the term and other songs followed suit as an homage, like the name "Major Tom."
"Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me...God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist." -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"Hal grabs life by the balls and doesn't let you do that [to] hal."
"I hereby declare myself master of the known world."
"Hal grabs life by the balls and doesn't let you do that [to] hal."
"I hereby declare myself master of the known world."