Tout Pitit Negresse

DESCRIPTION: Creole French: "Tout pitit Negresse en bas bayou, A-pe laver chimise ye' mama! A, alla, mamselle, les blanchiseuses! (x2)" A very small black woman washes shirts on the bayou; a boy washes underclothes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: worker
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Scarborough-OnTheTrailOfNegroFolkSongs, pp. 212-213, "Tout Pitit Negresse" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: ScaNF212

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