From: cgray2@kc.pb.rr.com   
      
   On 29 Mar 2005 17:35:39 -0800, swampstomper  wrote:   
      
   > I'm going crazy trying to figure out one word in the Ralph Stanley tune   
   > "Kitten and the Cat" (on King and then as a medley on Live in Japan).   
   > It's the line that goes:   
   >   
   > I'll be gone, long gone, when the kitten starts ????? the cat   
   >   
   > It sounds like "toting" or "taunting" neither of which make too much   
   > sense, but then again the song is somewhat cryptic.   
   >   
   It *is* toting, at least to my ears.  Which implies to me that he'll be   
   leaving when that happens; i.e., never.   
   Which seems to disagree with the rest of the lyrics.   
      
      
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