Word: shoutin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before radio scouts, theatrical agents and pressmen. Lead Belly prospered, bought himself a new guitar, drawled his rhyme-sprouting improvisations in concert halls and over the air. In 1935 he sent for his best girl, swarthy Martha Promise, a Shreveport, La. laundress, and married her in one of the "shoutin'est" suburban weddings Manhattan's Negro colony had ever seen...
...even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled with sequins, which swept away from her trim ankles. Her face was beautiful, with the rich, ripe beauty of southern darkness, a, deep bronze brown, like her bare arms. . . . She began her strange rites in a 'voice full of shoutin' and moanin' and prayin' and sufferin', a wild, rough Ethiopian voice, harsh and volcanic, released between rouged lips and the whitest of teeth, the singer swaying slightly to the rhythm...
...they is a limit to things. All th' credit in th' world to th' King of England an' th' English people; but we don't have to be Ovendales about it! I say, leave off the boom-de-ay." Then some was shoutin' "We want the boom-de-ay!'' an' others was savin' "Leave off the boom-de-ay-leave it off!" So we put the boom-de-ay to a vote, an' it was six-to-six, hog-tied as neat as you ever...