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Thread #25112   Message #2420787
Posted By: Amos
23-Aug-08 - 02:33 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Jordan Am a Hard Road to Travel
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jordan Am A Hard Road To Travel
The Newport version has several other verses, and no reference to rracist terms I could hear. One has to do with "y' oughta see them tomaters..."; another starts "Times are getting mighty hard, down where I've been boardin'...". A third has a couple of lines about running into a hornet's nest, "an' didn't get stuck hardly any....".

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