The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91633   Message #4228310
Posted By: Lighter
09-Sep-25 - 11:47 AM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Cindy Cindy' - how old is it?
Subject: RE: Origins: 'Cindy Cindy' - how old is it?
Brooklyn Citizen (Aug. 24, 1893):


"[In Georgia] The sound s of slavery days come back to you with that fragment of a song the negro boatman keeps crooning....The plantation seems alive now with the harmony of the field hand chorus you heard so often when a boy....You can hear