I'm going on a little vacation and doing it, as is my wont, in a very old-fashioned way. In a little while, I'll be in my stateroom. I haven't checked whether there will be a connection so I don't know if I'll be able to post.
In the mean time, here is the great Elizabeth Cotten with the masterpiece that she wrote when still a girl.
It's one of the more endearing things about the song that it is a little girl's song. There is a weird sort of white guilt-driven reverse racism that leads us to see great depth in songs like these but it is, in fact, the childlike view here that makes this great.
In the mean time, here is the great Elizabeth Cotten with the masterpiece that she wrote when still a girl.
It's one of the more endearing things about the song that it is a little girl's song. There is a weird sort of white guilt-driven reverse racism that leads us to see great depth in songs like these but it is, in fact, the childlike view here that makes this great.
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