The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4280 Message #1428006
Posted By: Midchuck
06-Mar-05 - 09:47 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Poor Howard / Green Corn (Leadbelly)
Subject: RE: Lyric req: poor howard
I believe Leadbelly sang this, with the verse:
Who's been here since I've been gone?
Big black nigger with a derby on...
The weavers recorded it, changing the lyric to:
...Great big man with a derby on.
This was like, the early '50s. It may have been the very first manifestation of what later came to be known as political correctness.
Peter.