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Thread #2067   Message #568438
Posted By: pavane
09-Oct-01 - 04:23 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Candy Man Blues (Mississippi John Hurt)
Subject: RE: Candy Man by Mississippi John Hurt
I had it in a book once, by ?Happy Traum? but the book appears to have gone missing. Sorry.

I vaguely (imperfectly)recall 'He had stick of candy 9 inches long' 'Chews it as fast as a hog chews corn'

but that is all