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Thread #24017 Message #2664551
Posted By: Barry Finn
25-Jun-09 - 02:23 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Colored Aristocracy
Subject: RE: Colored Aristocracy?
It was not just the interjection of a few phrases, it was a song to the fiddle tune with a good number of verses & a chorus. By no means a matter of throwing in floaters from elsewhere. It's unsuall in that it has somewhat of a story line.
I've heard it sung a couple times, always the same verses & chorus but it was so long ago & the time lapses in between wiped out almost all of my memory of it. It wasn't PC, for sure. Something about the "Darkies sing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (the freed Blacks were gleefully celebrating & rejoicing in the Emancipation Proclamation. If it's a recent composition (1st I heard it's gotta be at least 2 decades ago) it was written in a what to me sounded like the very traditional style of Black string bands. Someone knew what they were writting & singing about.
Barry