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Date recorded: August 9, 1942
Contributor(s): Performer: Starks, Will; Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Jones, Lewis
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Genre: ballad
Instruments: voice, guitar
Location: Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States
Tape number: AFS6651
Track Number: 1
Archive ID: 6651B1
Note: Starks says he learned the song from a Charlie Washington of Kansas City. It employs the Stagolee tune and oft-used chorus to tell a similar story of Ollie Jackson's murder of brothers Dick and Babe Carr over a crap game in St. Louis, June 7, 1901.
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Belongs to: Clarksdale 8/42
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