who was mr bojangles? was having a debate with abba yesterday… i presumed he was some sort of jazz age character good old wikipedia… the song is about a down and out tap dancer the writer met in a prison cell (and his dog!), who in turn was named for the original 20’s dancer Bill Robinson whereas the derivation of Bojangles is either ‘happy-go-lucky’, ‘squabbler’ or, in the Pali language, the word ‘bhojangha’ means “limbs of enlightenment”. heres a bizarrely literal tom jones, sammy davis jr version the internet… so many ways to waste time!
