Nigger, Nigger, Never Die

DESCRIPTION: "Nigger, Nigger, never die, Big flat nose and a shiny eye, Mouth as big...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1962 (Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5)
KEYWORDS: Black(s)
FOUND IN: US(MW,SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5, p. 541, "Nigger, Nigger, Never Die" (1 fragment, partial tune)
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties," Volume 1, Number 4 (WInter 1951), p. 255, "(Nigger, Nigger, never die)" (1 text)
NOTES [44 words]: The current text is all the text recorded in Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5. One may hope that the transcriber quit because it was so ugly. But the MidwestFolklore version has just two lines, so maybe that's normal. Either way, it's very bad. - RBW
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File: BrS5541

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