A popular song from 1919 Words and music by Jack Strouse
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They took a little bit of Old Black Joe
To start off their refrain,
Kept strummin’, kept strummin’,
That old familiar strain
And they took a little bit of Swanee River
And looked around until they found
Massa’s in the cold, cold ground,
And then they took four bars
Of My Old Kentucky Home,
Those Southern tunes
They tried hard to confuse, they couldn’t lose,
Away down South in the land of cotton
There was nothing they’d forgotten
When it was done and rolled into one
They called it the Dixie Blues
Performance
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