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Huddie Leadbelly Ledbetter: Look a here...

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Look a here people, listen to me,
Don't try to find no home in Washington, D.C.
Lord, it's a bourgeois town, it's a bourgeois town.

Source: Bourgeois Blues. The song was written in collaboration with musicologist Alan Lomax, who had recorded Leadbelly in Louisiana State Prison in 1933 and 1934, and helped to obtain his pardon from there.
-- Huddie Leadbelly Ledbetter, (Jan 29 1889?-1949), US folk and blues singer, songwriter, guitarist; The King Of The 12 String Guitar began his career with the blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, but never really achieved true commercial success.

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