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Old 3rd Sep 2005, 11:29
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An Teallach
 
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Another instance of modern PC tosh is people changing the lyric of Leadbelly's mighty song "The Bourgeois Blues".

The song records Leadbelly and the folklorist Alan Lomax and their families' attempts to find a hotel in Washington DC in 1933 when Lomax took Leadbelly up to record his songs for the Library of Congress.

It actually records both their disgust as they could find no hotel (black or white) which would accommodate both their family parties together.

The repellant modern fad is to rip the heart out of the song by changing the line "We don't want no niggers 'round here" to "We don't want no black folks 'round here"! Actually, the word nigger was used by Leadbelly to describe how both he and the (white) Lomax were made to feel.
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