My father tells a funny story in relation to this song. His mother was painfully religious, southern baptist to be specific. She played the piano and thought he should to, so he could play in church of course. One day she stepped away during a lesson, and in her absence, he picked out a little piece of Shotgun Boogie on the keys. She came running back into the room howling like a banshee and proceeded to beat him over the head with her bible. Thankfully it wasn't a particularly large or heavy version, so he escaped mostly unscathed. I believe that was his last piano lesson. He still laughs every time he tells it, I'll have to remind him to tell me again next weekend in the duck blind.
DLH
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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