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Subject: LEADBELLY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BUNK JOHNSON BLOWING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They found him in the fields and called him back to music
Last Line: We three slid down that san francisco hill
Subject(s): Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949; Music & Musicians; Leadbelly


BUNK JOHNSON BLOWING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They found him in the fields and called him back to music
Last Line: We three slid down that san francisco hill
Subject(s): Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949; Music And Musicians


LEADBELLY GIVES AN AUTOGRAPH, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pat your foot / and turn the corner. Nat turner, dying wood
Last Line: Burned to death / in south carolina
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949); Negroes; American Blacks


MEXICO CITY BLUES (221ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old man mose early american jazz pianist
Last Line: But deadbelly get ahead %ha ha ha
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack
Subject(s): Jazz; Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949; Music And Musicians