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Thread #91646   Message #1744547
Posted By: Azizi
20-May-06 - 02:01 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs about Big Feet
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about Big Feet
Though this song doesn't specifically mention big feet, I think it alludes to them. And it's a prime example of the city folk lookin down on people who come from the "backwoods" or retain those "backwoods" ways:


AUNT JEMIMA
Ole Aunt Jemima grow so tall,
Dat she couldn' see de groun'.
She stumped her toe, an' down she fell
From the Blackwoods clean to town.

W'en Aunt Jemima git in t0own,
An' seedem "tony" ways,
She natchully faint a' back she fell
To de Backwoods whar she stays.

Thomas W. Talley "Negro Folk Rhymes" {Kennikat Press Edition, 1968, p. 107; originally published by The Macmillan Company, 1922}