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Thread #123870 Message #2731531
Posted By: Stewie
25-Sep-09 - 10:02 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye
Subject: RE: Origins: Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye
Joybell,
In respect of the refrains relating to cats of various colours doing things to other cats's eyes - kicking, spitting etc - see 19th century African American folksongs and minstrelsy song 'Black cat and white cat' by Dan Emmett (1850s). Uncle Dave Macon's 'Gray Cat on a Tennessee Farm' has the 'gray cat' spitting in 'the little kitten's eye'.
Black cat and white cat
--Stewie.