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Thread #2649 Message #2180573
Posted By: GUEST,Paul Townsend
27-Oct-07 - 03:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Whoa Back Buck (Leadbelly)
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Woah Back Buck, by Leadbelly
In Lonnie Donegan's version of Whoa Buck the expression "Sugar in the Gourd" is said to be "a dance". The last line of the chorus as he sings it (corresponding to the "Whoa goddam" or "Old Cunningham" above) sounds more like "some old man".