It's been exactly three years since this thread was started.
I found this thread in this circuitous way: I saw a reference that someone made to the song "Strange Fruit" in a current thread on "Songs that are special". I then went to the Search box and found the song listed in the Digitrad and also the information that there were a number of threads that mention the song.
BTW, the last posting in any of these threads was Sept. 2003.
I found this thread to be particularly informative:
Origins of 'Strange Fruit' - article
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=30958
[sorry-I still don't know how to hyperlingk]/
Since the song "Mississippi Goddam"is connected in my mind with the song "Strange Fruit", I went to the Search box to find out if there was mention in Mudcat on this song.
The search engine gave this message: "No Results in the Digitrad"
The Search engine also gave the results that "Mississippi Goddam" had been mentioned in Mudcat threads 5 times, including the above post by KarlMarx.
"The Songs of Mississippi" thread contains a post on April 27 2003 by catspaw49. In that post she {he?}also includes the lyrics to the "Mississippi Goddam" song.
Since I am still a relative newbie here-I've been posting here not quite 4 months-I am asking this question in all sincerity: "What is the process for adding a song to the Digitrad?
I thought that including the lyrics in a post was enough, but apparently, this case demonstrates that that isn't so.
PS: I was raised in the church and cursing "especially taking the name of God in vain" wasn't allowed in my childhood home. None of the above are permitted in my own home.
However....
While I still cringe when I read or hear the words "Goddam", I make an exception {with adults} with this song. The objectional phrase is used here to effectively emphasize singer's extreme feelings about all the objectionable things that the name "Mississippi" evocates for her and {many other} African Americans.
I must say that I mean no disrespect to all the good folks who are from or who live in Mississippi. However for African Americans that state has long symbolized the harshest forms of slavery and Jim Crowism.
But maybe the'award' for "the most difficult in the USA for Black folks" should now been given to Texas.
Just a thought...
PSS:
On a much much lighter note, I also remember when I was a young child in the 1950s trying to 'trick' another child into saying something 'risque' by asking her if she knew how to spell "Mississippi".
The unsuspecting girl would start spelling "M-I-S-S-I-P-P" and then I'd interrupt her and say "Oooh! You said you P-P"
Sometimes chidren wouldn't immediately 'get it', but eventually they would realized that they'd been tricked into mentioning bodily functions in public...They would shrug it off, and act like it wasn't any big deal. Which it wasn't. It was just childhood fun.