Also, I recorded "Uncle Eph Got The Coon" along with a great tall tale about a fantastic racoon hunt. I knew of the racial term "coon"----but that never stopped me from doing the song I'd learned from Grandpa Louis Jones. I told that tale and sang that song in kid's shows for over twenty years---and I was never called on the carpet for it--because it wasn't about race. The song was comletely about hunting for a racoon in order to provide the protein part of folks' diet.

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