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Thread #100653 Message #3367594
Posted By: Joe_F
24-Jun-12 - 08:50 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Down Down Baby-Race in Children's Rhymes
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down Down Baby-Race in Children's Rhymes
James Agee, in _A Death in the Family_, records the following from Knoxville, Tennessee, ca. 1915:
Nigger, nigger, black as tar,
Tried to ride a lectric car,
Car broke down an broke his back
Poor nigger wanted his nickel back.
It was shouted at Agee, tho he was white, because he had a "nigger name", Rufus.