Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Taking the Chicago story to DC. « Fred Klonsky

Taking the Chicago story to DC. « Fred Klonsky:


Taking the Chicago story to DC.


In 1938, the great blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Huddie Ledbetter wrote about his experiences in Washington, D.C..
I tell all the colored folks to listen to me.
Don’t try to find you no home in Washington, DC 
‘Cause it’s a bourgeois town.
Uhm, the bourgeois town.
I got the bourgeois blues, 
Gonna spread the news all around.
Washington is historically a Southern city.  It was also the first city in the United States with an African-