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Thread #90660 Message #1720630
Posted By: GUEST,thurg
17-Apr-06 - 07:57 PM
Thread Name: Skin color in songs & singers' names
Subject: RE: Skin color in songs & singers' names
Re: "blacker the berry", etc. W.C. Handy makes the meaning quite explicit in ST. Louis Blues:
You oughta see that stove-pipe brown of mine,
Like she owns the Diamond-Joseph Line;
She'd make a cross-eyed man go stone-blind.
Blacker than midnight, with teeth like flags of truce,
Blackest girl in the whole of St. Louis;
Blacker the berry, sweeter am the juice.