Word: pardoner
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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...
...songs are his own. He sang about when "me and a bunch of cowboys had that famous battle on Bunker Hill," and again about the Negro who "throwed his jelly* out of the window.' The minstrel was proudest when he chanted the petition which won him his first pardon. The refrain...
time, I don't see to save my soul; If 1 can't get a pardon, try me in a parole...
...This is simple-not new," he said. "For 30 years is known mass and energy is equivalent. I hope you pardon because it is so simple...
...Elimination of pardon and parole "abuse...