This is another example of folkies denying history because it isn't politically correct.

Was originally:

"Some folks say that a n***** won't steal,
but I saw a n***** in my cornfield..."

which goes way back, I don't know any more of it, I only know this much because my wife heard my late father-in-law singing it in her childhood.

Interesting that I feel compelled to use asterisks in the word above, but have no problem with spelling out "fuck" or "shit" in plain text. In my childhood it would have been the other way around. I suppose that's progress of a sort, but it would be better if no words were taboo - only the use of them with the intention to inflict gratuitious pain.

Peter.