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Thread #60936   Message #978417
Posted By: GUEST,Q
07-Jul-03 - 01:47 PM
Thread Name: Why is 'Dixie' considered racist?
Subject: RE: Why is 'Dixie' considered racist?
A knot in this thread (?), a song given by Randolph, in "Roll Me In Your Arms," song 93, has some verses that were sung in the U. S. cavalry with the added line (changed) and tune for "Dixie's Land."

Should this one could be considered sexist rather than racist?
I will give only one verse:

Bumblebee cotton and peckerwood corn,
Liza comes a-runnin' and she grabs me by the horn;
Fuck away, fuck away, fuck away, Liza Jane.

Randolph and Legman have entirely different sheet music for their version of the song "Bumblebee Cotton and Peckerwood Corn," coll. near Fayetteville, Arkansas, about 1912 and sung by Mrs. B. M., 1950. They collected several versions from different sources (Missouri, Pennsylvania).

Another verse mentions pokeweed (considered to be an aphrodisiac). Bumblebee cotton is a euphemism for pubic hair. Peckerwood corn (and rhubarb in another verse) stand for penis (Randolph and Legman, notes to song 93).