The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71721 Message #1228639
Posted By: Charley Noble
18-Jul-04 - 10:07 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Old Moke Pluckin On The Banjo'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Moke Pluckin On The Banjo'
Sol-
This shanty has to be in the DT in some form or other. No way it hasn't been posted. There are many idiosyncratic lines in it and the strange shift to the chorus. And there has been ample discussion of what a "moke" refers to, originally a mule but probably to a Black person in this shanty.