Note: A dance song from slavery times whose text deals with color distinctions. Different fates are alloted to the yellow girl, the brown girl, and the black girl, who generally fares worst, though in the end it's "just the same." Recorded in many variants on race records in the 1920s and '30s. Setting: Alan Lomax's apartment, 3rd Street
About the session: The fourth of 21 recording sessions with Bessie Jones.
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