The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13537   Message #118098
Posted By: dick greenhaus
27-Sep-99 - 11:36 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Cotton-eyed Joe-true story/composite?
Subject: RE: Cotton-eyed Joe-true story/composite?
Katlaughing- I am reminded about the furor that happened a couple of years back on the Bluegrass list when someone decided that Groundhog was racist: The line:

"Up jumped Sal with a snigger and a grin.."

ws heard as " ...with his nigger and a grin"

As Gilda Radner used to say: "Never mind."