There's a song that Ma Rainey recorded that begins, "Charleston, South Carolina, that's where I born". A couple of verses I vaguely remember:


I'm a big, fat mama, got the meat hanging on my bones,
I'm a big, fat mama, got the meat hanging on my bones,
Every time I shake it, some skinny gal loses her [own?].

Goin' back to Charleston, gonna get my hambone boiled,
Goin' back to Charleston, gonna get my hambone boiled,
These northern men gonna let my hambone spoil.