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...Texas a black buck known as Lead Belly murdered a man. He sang a petition to Governor Pat Neff and was granted a pardon. Back in the Louisiana swamplands, where he was born Huddie Ledbetter, his knife made more trouble. He was in State Prison at Angola when John A. Lomax, eminent ballad collector, stopped by last summer and asked the warden if he could please hear Lead Belly sing...
Please, Governor Neff, let me go back home...
Please, Governor Neff, be good an' kind, Have mercy on my great long...
Please, Governor Neff, be good and kind, And if I can't get a pardon, will you cut my time...
...Governor Neff, like you got me, I would wake up in the mornin' and set you free...