The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102572   Message #2080285
Posted By: Janice in NJ
18-Jun-07 - 04:56 PM
Thread Name: Favorite Traditional Blues Songs
Subject: RE: Favorite Traditional Blues Song
My Creole Belles, a two-step march by George Sidney (lyrics) and J. Bodewalt Lampe (music), is clearly in the public domain. The new material added by Mississippi John Hurt (including new musical arrangement and major revisions in the text) is under copyright held by Wynwood Music, Inc. If you would prefer George Sidney's original words, they begin:

All coons are prancin',
Singin' and dancin',
Goin' wild with glee,
I'm as happy as can be...

I believe I will stick with with John Hurt's version.