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NIGGER AND THE WHITE MAN. AKA and see "Seven Up." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Oklahoma. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This ditty was sung to the tune:
Nigger and the white man playin' seven up,
Nigger won the money and afraid to pick it up.
Source for notated version: Rance Willhite (Jefferson County, Oklahoma) [Thede].
Printed sources: Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; p. 68.
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