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Afterall raccoons are native to North America not Europe and every English schoolboy knows the wild west was full of fearsome beasts never seen in England.

Raccoon has the same syllables melodically and to a city boy Englishman's ear Rocky Raccoon from a small town in Minnesota has a rugged western sound. Later realizing Sassoon being an English surname was too cosmopolitian, he decided it needed to be changed, he wanted something more western. He chose to name his song's hero Rocky Sassoon, from a small town in Minnesota. In his mind an old west character would be an old timey tobbaccy chewing gold prospector, maybe played by Dub Taylor, Westerns depicted cowboys as settling a discrepancy with a showdown gun fight. Paul's misconceptions also inadvertantly add an American comic edge to the song. I digress, but several years ago a semi-famous 'college educated' football player when informed he had been drafted into the NFL by Minnesota replied he looked forward to seeing Ohio, thinking Minnesota was the capital of Ohio. His misconceptions can be forgiven, afterall many Americans not only don't know the difference between Iowa and Ohio, they don't care. Paul set out to write a 'western' folk ballad. The British Empire's closest association to the old west would have been Saskatchewan having cattle ranches and even a gold rush in 1913. Cowboy shows such as Bonanza & Gunsmoke often contained messages of morality.

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Old west movies and tv shows were a popular genre in the 40's 50's and 60's. IF the lyrics of many Beatles songs are considered as poetry then this one would be best classified as a western children's story. But none of them along the line know what any of it is worth.' It is also an open question whether there is an allusion to Bob Dylan here the song seems too much a 'western,' more than Dylan would be, but the meaning that people ought to be serious would fit nicely with the Dylan line from the Watchtower song, 'Businessmen they drink my wine plowmen dig my earth. So, poor Rocky! It is just like everyday tales of our inner cities and elsewhere, where young men are killed every day for such trivial causes. That Rocky died is shown by the uselessness of the drunken doctor, who is nevertheless able to declare that Rocky is a goner and there is nothing he can do for him. Indeed, it could be read that, after meeting with the drunken doctor, Rocky found only that book, which was of no use to him. The Beatles leave open the question of whether the Bible is of any actual use or not it is only that Gideon's intention in leaving the Bible for Rocky or whoever was good, not that it would really be of any use. In the second instance, it is too late, because he has been shot, has no real medical treatment available, and is dying and no longer in a condition where he can pay attention. In the first instance, Rocky ignores the Bible because he is bent on revenge against Dan. The Beatles put in Gideon's Bible twice as both a warning and a help despite the story about the Gideons and the Beatles, they say nothing negative about either Gideon or his Bible here, which was meant to help with Rocky's revival, a word obviously connected with Christian revivalist preaching and with resurrection on the Day of Judgement. First, this song is a simple ballad about a love triangle in which Rocky loses out, both by losing his girl and losing the showdown as well, and finally losing his life into the bargain.

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