"That Don't CONFRONT Me........

… as long as I get my rent money by next Friday"

First heard it by George Thorogood, and it sounds like a bastardization of the word “concern”, but was that the way it was commonly used when “One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer” was written?

Kinda like the word “ain’t” for isn’t?

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Could that be COMFORT?

Not really - the original (John Lee Hooker?) blues version was much shorter. Later versions of the song, including Thorogood’s, included the additional dialogue with the “landlady” but that was not part of the original.

http://www.bluesforpeace.com/lyrics/bourbon-scotch-beer.htm

Various versions have it as “confront”, “concern” or “comfort”; depending on context any of these words would work.

It’s Southern and ebonics slang, with some misnomer. Confrontin’ is like “You be frontin’.”

“Ain’t come one, but many tine tanies”, in the immortal words of Pootie Tang.

Don’t be confrontin’ me none.

Meaning, “you’re lying to me”, devilsknew?

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No, it’s like …shit, this ain’t be whittlin’ me down none.

I’ve always interpreted the line to mean “That don’t confront me [with a problem], long as I get my money next Friday.”

She be howlin’ about the front rent, she be lucky to get any back rent. She ain’t gonna get none of it.

No, that’s not it, It’s a call and response. If anything, it’s synononymous with “I don’t give a shit.” Don’t be confrontin’ me none.

That phrase just totally ROCKS! :slight_smile:

Q

Everybody funny. Now you funny too.
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My grown-men-boys use the word “conversate” for talking with other people. At first I hated it. Now I like it and would use it myself, but that would make them immediately drop it from their vocabulary.

I can’t answer this.

I drink alone.

If you don’t start drinkin’, I’m gonna leave.

I know!!!. But this is about the friggin’ RENT!:D:D

And next Friday came and went…?:wink:

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That’s what happens when you drink the rent.

Or, trip, as **Jerry Lee ** would sing it:

"Jerry Lee aint’ got da mutha-humpin RENT!!!"

(“All Killer, no Filler!”)

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We just did that.
Here.
[hic]

I always heard it as “befront”, which apparently means : to concern or bother. The only lyrics I’ve found on the web use “confront” and “comfort”