big jimmy jefferson's definitions

Larry the mule

Not quite mule, not quite man (and his name isn't larry, although its use has been known in both past and present).

Known only to his compadres as a voice fluttering in the dusk, swelt moonlight of the night.... as laurence.

"There's that Larry the mule, drunk on absenthe and high on power"

by big jimmy jefferson July 4, 2006