[78-L] Dept of meaningless lyrics?

[Ken "Silver Showcase"]

Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
> "leave you with nothing but a fine tooth comb"?
> ("Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?").
>
> Perhaps the tooth in the comb is just short of being mint and is thus 
> “fine.” Must have been a large tooth, perhaps a T-Rex tooth. The song 
> doesn’t say what the comb was made of, perhaps marzipan.
>   

I'm thinking that "fine" refers to the size and spacing of the teeth of 
the comb.  Fine vs course, so fine would be thin teeth spaced closely 
together.  I think that "leave you with nothing but a fine tooth comb" 
means that you are left with something of little or no value, and that 
"fine tooth comb" simply fits the meter and comb rhymes with home.

-- Ken