Never heard it either, which is curious, becauses I’m definitely not a southern-shandy-drinking-dress-wearing-drinks-a-half-with-one-finger-sticking out-southern-jessie either.
Actually I searched for the monkees, because I started writing when a friend sent me a link to the Favorite Monkee post and I decided to see what else people were saying about them and this came up in the list.
Question Mark, Porpentine, TomH… All of you have missed the gist of the Beatles line about Sir Walter Raleigh. One of Sir Walter’s most famous acts was to place his cape in the mud so that Queen Elizabeth could walk across it. Samuel Clemens, the American bard, once referred to men discovering chivalry as; “Getting a case of the Sir Walter Raleighs”. In the song the theme is about a frustrated lover and how he wishes he could be with his girl. Well, it’s not much of a leap to think that he might wish to go after her cave man style, but is prevented from doing so by the more modern notions of chivalric conduct and all that. Ergo the cursing of Sir Walter Raleigh for reintroducing the notion of chivalry from the days of the Knights Templar and The Crusades. Sheesh, like that wasn’t obvious!!!