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...both. To find the "sinful made-up" songs they had to go where there were plenty of sinful Negroes-the State penitentiaries. On a Mississippi prison farm Convict Joe Baker (alias Seldom Seen) told them: "I never had been in no trouble wid de law . . . but one fellow kept messin' up my homely affairs, so I blowed him down." Then he sang...
...Whatta dey wanna go messin' around faw? Whatta dey wanna scrape up da choon gum of fa da sidewalks faw? Maybe dey wanna have a Park Avenoo over here instead of Broadway. Leave it ta hell alone or it won't be Broadway no more. Put up a sign dat says spit out your choon gum folks, dis is old Broadway; spit er out. Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone...
...Messin' Around is another Negro musical show with an assortment of prancing and harmonics common to what has unfortunately become the type. There are two female pugilists who bash each other with seemingly unfeigned zeal, but they scarcely constitute an entertainment quorum...