Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Catching a train

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.


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