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Posted By: GUEST,Joseph Scott
17-Jun-15 - 02:50 PM
Thread Name: Precedents for early blues lyrics
Subject: RE: Precedents for early blues lyrics
"But he's done done it" -- under "REDUNDANT WORDS..." in _An Analytical, Illustrative, and Contructive Grammar..._ by Brantley York of North Carolina, 1862.
"'...we done done de day's wuk in de fiel'...'" -- _Atlantic Monthly_ quoting a black Southerner, 2/1882.
"'... [W]e 'cided to call in a pyshyshun, which we done done.'" -- _Current Opinion_, 3/1889.
"... an' w'en he done done dat..." -- _The Southern Magazine_ 3/1895, quoting a resident of Chattanooga.