Black Betty by Leadbelly
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Time for some mid-week Blues. Ever since Ram Jam covered this, Led Belly seems to have been forgotten.
The Blues.
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The original, and amazing, Lead Belly (who died from #ALS).
"Black Betty is not another Frankie, nor yet a two-timing woman that a man can moan his blues about. She is the whip that was and is used in some Southern prisons. A convict on the Darrington State Farm in Texas, where, by the way, whipping has been practically discontinued, laughed at Black Betty and mimicked her conversation in the following song." ~"American Ballads and Folk Songs" by Alan Lomax and John A. Lomax
