Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p ""Ballin' the Jack" (sometimes misspelled "Balling the Jack") is a popular song from 1913, written by Jim Burris with music by Chris Smith. It introduced a popular dance of the same name with "Folks in Georgia's 'bout to go insane." It became a ragtime, pop, and trad jazz standard, and has been recorded hundreds of times by many prominent artists. Around the same time the song came out, the expression "ballin' the jack" was used by railroad workers to mean "going at full speed." It's not clear whether the dance or railroad reference came first. And the phrase has also been used to describe operating a jackhammer. In a recent novel, Balling the Jack, by Frank Baldwin, to a gambler the expression means "risking everything on one attempt.""@en }
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- Ballin_the_Jack abstract ""Ballin' the Jack" (sometimes misspelled "Balling the Jack") is a popular song from 1913, written by Jim Burris with music by Chris Smith. It introduced a popular dance of the same name with "Folks in Georgia's 'bout to go insane." It became a ragtime, pop, and trad jazz standard, and has been recorded hundreds of times by many prominent artists. Around the same time the song came out, the expression "ballin' the jack" was used by railroad workers to mean "going at full speed." It's not clear whether the dance or railroad reference came first. And the phrase has also been used to describe operating a jackhammer. In a recent novel, Balling the Jack, by Frank Baldwin, to a gambler the expression means "risking everything on one attempt."".