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May 21, 2011
I wonder if this song was originally written to be of a "duskly maid" to her child in a post-slavery era when, in the deep south (and I'm sure elsewhere) rich white men kept black mistresses. Now, I know this song ended up being in Porgy and Bess, but it wouldn't be the first time a song was written for one purpose, and then used later on for another.