Okay, just got through reliving the Hell-on-Earth which was my pre-college education (it’s like post-traumatic stress…over time it fades, but it never completely disappears), and now I’m more than ready for a more lighthearted topic.
All right then…
I’ve heard snippets of this song here and there (but never complete). It starts out, “The foot bone’s connected to the leg bone, the leg bone’s connected to the knee bone…”. There are a bunch of other similarly misnamed bones, and at the end of each verse was “And here’s a word from the lord.”
Two questions: 1) What was this song’s title, and 2) what they hey was this song about? Somehow I doubt it was actually about anatomy, and why the Almighty (or some other lord, I don’t know for certain) would want to talk about bones has escaped me.
Clever, bibliophage. What he did was a superscripted subscript (or was it the other way around), and then typed in normal capitals. Because it’s sup, it’s small, but the sub and sup cancel out, for the position, so it’s lined up normally.
This song was performed at a student show at my school, and according to the music professor who was acting as MC it is really about the Underground Railroad. He said that it was significant that the order of bones given went from the feet up to the head, that is, from the South to the North. I have no idea what his sources were or how true any of this might be, but that’s what he told us.
