Aught Is an Aught

DESCRIPTION: "Aught is an aught, A figure is a figure, Biggest possum, Biggest nigger" Or "...figure, All for the white man And none for the nigger."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1953 (MidwestFolklore); apparently also found by Perrow in 1909
KEYWORDS: animal
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
MidwestFolklore, Frances Boshears, "Granddaddy Roberts," Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 1953), p. 153, "(Aught is an aught)" (1 text)
Roud #21047
NOTES [28 words]: Is this the preface, or chorus, to a song about calculation, or something else? The only two texts, Perrow's and that in MidwestFolklore, are both bare fragments. - RBW
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File: MWF153C

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