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Take Me Back To Tulsa by Bob Wills was positively union bolshie.
*"Little bee sucks the blossom, big bee gets the honey,
Dark man picks the cotton, White man gets the money." Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan
Bob Wills - Take me back to Tulsa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCjbMdY8dZE* Those lyrics have an interesting history of bowdlerization.
" ... Wills's organization was based in Tulsa from 1934 to 1942, and the song takes its name from the chorus: "Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to marry".
Lyrically, the song is a series of unrelated, mostly nonsense, rhyming couplets. One was:
Little bee sucks the blossom, big bee gets the honey.
Darkie raise the cotton, white man gets the money.
The last quoted line was changed by 1946 by Wills to: "Little man raise the cotton, beer joints get the money."[5] (Modern covers of the song have tended to use the line: "Poor boy picks the cotton, Rich man gets the money").
When Wills was asked about the lines, he said they were just nonsense lyrics that he learned as a youth.[6] Though Wills did not know its origin, the couplet actually derives from a 19th century song of enslaved African Americans, a version of which also appeared in print in the 1880 novel My Southern Home by William Wells Brown.[7]
When played at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa and other venues, it often included the lines:
Would I like to go to Tulsa? Boy I sure would.
Well, let me off at Archer, and I'll walk down to Greenwood.
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