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1. 'Mr Bojangles' is perhaps the most famous song written by Jerry Jeff Walker and it has been covered many times. Which legendary 'rat pack' singer is closely associated with the song?
2. Jerry Jeff Walker was a Texas-based singer/songwriter whose career covered various music genres from rock, through folk and blues to country. He was known by at least eight names at various stage in his career, but what was the name on his birth certificate?
3. Which city fills the blanks in this line from the song 'Mr Bojangles'?
"I met him in a cell in - -
I was, down and out
He looked to me to be the eyes of age
As he spoke right out
He talked of life, he talked of life,
He laugh-slapped his leg a step."
4. Just before he wrote 'Mr Bojangles', Jerry Jeff Walker was a member of a progressive-rock band with a classical-sounding name. What was it?
5. Which former member of a British 'boy band' included an orchestra-backed version of 'Mr Bojangles' on an album entitled "Swing When You're Winning"?
6. Which family member bought country singer/songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker his first guitar?
7. The singer/songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker spent a particular weekend in jail in a southern city. What had he been been arrested for?
8. Which type of show is missing from this line in 'Mr Bojangles'?
"He danced for those at ____ shows and county fairs
Throughout the South
He spoke with tears of fifteen years how his dog and him
Had traveled about.
His dog up and died, he up and died,
After 20 years he still grieves"
9. Which of these virtuosos of the instrument played guitar on Jerry Jeff Walker's first recording of 'Mr Bojangles'?
10. Which kind of establishment is missing from these lines from 'Mr Bojangles'?
"He said 'I dance now at ev'ry chance in - -
For drinks and tips.
But most of the time I spend behind these county bars
Cause I drinks a bit.'"
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