From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   chuck wrote:   
   > I have been trying to trace the meaning of the above saying.  I know   
   > that Levi Garrett is or was snuff, but I would like to know the meaning   
   > of "won't bat".   
   >   
   > For example, in the Tex Ritter recording of "Teneha, Timpson, Bobo and   
   > Blair" he has a number of "southernisms" and this is one of them.   
   >   
     I can't find the complete lyrics to see the context. Does it make any   
   sense if it's "bet", not "bat"? The title (Tenaha is the first town's   
   name) was a crap shooters chant, supposedly when going for double fives.   
      
   That would not be a southern vowel shift. Shifting the other way - "bat"   
   to "bet" - is a feature of what they call Northern Cities Shift.   
      
   I've never heard of "won't bat" as a phrase in any region.   
      
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