Black and yellow you like banana too
They might pick you some day

A time to be sowin'

Deep in December
It's nice to remember
The fire of September
That made us mellow.

Mollie Mouse was the hat-check girl.

A time to be sowin'

This has always come across to me as nonsensical. Maybe there was something deficient in my education, but all I've ever seemed to learn about catfish points to their being quintessential bottom feeders. They have never seemed to me to be capable of propelling themselves out of water and into air above the water surface. If ever they are observed to be "jumping as high as the sky", that would seem to me a good candidate for something to be considered a portent of end times or something like that.

This song is in general perhaps the most underrated song on their "Brothers Four Greatest Hits" album. But the lyrics, especially in the second of the stanzas quoted above, wax a bit nonsensical. While "lonesome hands" is literally nonsensical, that can be reckoned to a figure of speech called synecdoche, where a part of something is mentioned to reference the whole. So it really means they were lonesome, not just their hands. But the problem comes in when we ask why they were lonesome in spite of holding hands. It is especially incongruous how the last two lines above make it seem that their lonesome state in holding hands was the reason for crying "Come Back To Me". And if they were lonesome even when holding hands, that kind of belies the qualifier "Now" in the previous verse that says "NOW I am lonely". The "lonesome hands" of the latter verse makes it seem they were lonesome all along. That sort of answers the question "Why did we have to part?" in the first stanza above, doesn't it?

Jesse James

William Jennings Bryan

You could fly away in the sky away.
You're more mucky than Lee.