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Thread #168256   Message #4106628
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
19-May-21 - 01:29 AM
Thread Name: Folk songs of disease
Subject: RE: Folk songs of disease
'Whippin' That Old T.B.' JIMMIE RODGERS (1932)

Listen all you rounders, you ought to be like me
Don't worry about consumption, even if they call it T.B.

T.B., T.B., some say tonic is fine
You take all your medicine you want, I'll take good liquor for mine

Rodgers died of tuberculosis at 35.