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Show Tha Old Darkey Songs Tjp n classic Boston the ban has been put on such songs as My Old Kent ky Ilome and Massa s n de Cold C old Ground, the highbrows of that c ty taking the pos t on that tho use of s ch tern s as darkey and n gger and coon were insultmg to 1 oth the white and negro races It s not at all probable that the Boston k bosh will prevent these songs fro n be ng sunt throughout the world cs all that of the old plantat on ong My Old Kentucky Dome wr tten 1 y Stephen Foster and sung even where e English language is nown. There is a 1 ne wh ch reads. T s sumrnor the darkeys aro gay ' t not a negro n all the Southland fe s 1 at it is a reproach pon his u c s nee it tells of a per od n south n h it ry that was picturesque in h x e showing tho devotion that e nte between mistress and slave that has o ounterpart in the history of the world A a matter of history it may be stat d that the first of the a rs that were popularized under the name of rag In was wr tten by a Bowling en np o named Ernest Hogan who ed a few years ago and many of h s wh te friends went to h s iuuoral The soug was ent tied All Coons Look Abke to Me." Boaling J2ccji (isyj MESsengcjlv f |