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Leadbelly Rap This is a 12 string guitar; first time I heard a 12 string guitar was played by Leadbelly, don't know if you've heard of him? Anyway, he was a prisoner in, I guess it was Texas State Prison, and I forgot what his real name was but people just used to call him Leadbelly. (from the audience: "HUDDIE LEADBETTER"") He was recorded by a man named Alan Lomax, don't know if you've heard of him? He's done a lot of great things for music. Anyway he got Leadbelly out and brought him up to New York. And he made a lot of records there. At first he was just doing prison songs and stuff like that. Same man that recorded him also recorded Muddy Waters before Muddy Waters became ... (inaudible). Anyway Leadbelly did most of those kind of songs. He'd been out of prison for some time when he decided to do children's songs and people said oh, why did Leadbelly change? Some people like the old songs some people like the new ones. Some people liked both songs. But he didn't change, he was the same man! Anyway this is a song called ..., It's a song I wrote a while back. I'm gonna try and do it as good as I can. there's somebody important here tonight who wants to hear it, so we'll give it our best ....
Bob's Written Word