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Rolling bones
Hi Deborah,
I am also a big fan of Rush from way back, though I don't think I ever heard this album.
"Roll the bones" means, "roll the dice", because dice have often been made of ivory or bone, and called "bones" for that reason. If you're up on your history, you may recall that the Emperor-to-be Julius Caesar would have decided to "roll the bones" shortly before he crossed the Rubicon and observed, "Okay, I rolled the bones", or, more familiarly, "the die is cast" (okay, so maybe he just rolled one of them).
Cheers!
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