551rcg@hound.UUCP (R.GANNS) (11/26/84)
Does anyone out there know about the origin of the song "Cotton-eyed Joe", which was more or less the theme song of this movie? I read on a Skillet-Lickers album cover that cotton-eyed joe may have been a character suffering from trachoma, and that the song is of minstrel origins.
keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris Keesan) (11/29/84)
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The folksinger Michael Cooney says that "Cotton-eyed Joe" was a term
describing a black slave with blue eyes.
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