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Jul 25, 2015
My thought, listening to an old Leadbelly recording was that he may have been saying "just ten miles from Texarkana." He grew up north of Shreveport, near Mooringsport. Yeah, this would have been closer to 20-30 miles from the city of Texarkana, but really about 10 miles or so from where Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas come together. I believe he was actually saying the cotton fields where he was rocked were about ten miles from the Texas-Arkansas border, not ten miles (or a mile, as Credence sang it generations later) from the city of TXK.