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Moore, Robert Kennon

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Collected by: Deanna Moore Transcribed by: Doug Haynie Arkansas Folklore Class Sung by: R.K. Moore Benton, Arkansas November 26, 1960 Reel 381; Item 22 A Negro Expression "One day while working near the depot, a little small ne­gro all dressed up walked by and picked up a spike mawl ana hit a few licks. When he got threw showing out he walked off and rubbed his hands together. The expression that was used by one of the big black boys was "I hates a niger that dry Washes his hands." (My father, Mr. R.K. Moore, worked on the railroad for a while when he was a young man. And this was one of the ex­pressions that he heard and that stuck with him.) Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation.
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Moore, DeannaHaynie, Douglas
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1960 11 26
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Ozark Folksong Collection

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Keywords

  1. Anecdotes
  2. Railroads

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