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unusual facts about Living and Dying in 3/4 Time


Living and Dying in 3/4 Time

The album contains two cover songs: "Ballad of Spider John" written and originally performed by Willis Alan Ramsey and "God's Own Drunk" by Lord Buckley.


Ringling, Montana

The town was also the subject of the Jimmy Buffett song "Ringling, Ringling" featured on his 1974 album Living & Dying in 3/4 Time.

Two Hearts in 3/4 Time

Two Hearts in Waltz Time, the 1930 German film Zwei Herzen im 3/4 Takt

Walkaround

At the start of the music, typically a fast dance song in 2/4 or 4/4 time, the dancers (who were already seated in a semicircle) stood and began clapping and slapping themselves in time ("patting Juba").


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