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One of the coolest songs ever. Ronny quickly surpassed George Benson as my favorite guitarist after hearing his tracks. I was hoping to get to meet Ronny through my husband's good buddy, who produced for and toured with him, but unfortunately Ronny passed before that could happen. 😢


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This is my hubs favorite song to sing and play. He changes the words, to Red Skin Woman. Before anyone gets all bothered about that, both my hubs and I are from Choctaw descent with his having a blood link to the Black Choctaw, I.E. Choctaw and Freedman mix.

I love the guitar work on this song. I never thought old Sam could sing worth a nickel, but Delta Blues isn't about musical vocal skills, rather the story being told.

 
Powerful words like, "You will remember me when I am gone, you will remember my story, my song." I was so impressed when I first heard this super talented lady and her mission to bring back the old style music. Well worth the hour and a half to watch this video if you are truly interested in the music that gave birth to freedom. My father said many times that slaves used song and freed their souls from the shackles that bound them, long before the irons were removed. I believe he was right and this music has always been an outlet for me during hard times.
 
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One of my great aunts, an avid gardener, taught me this song to help me pass time hoeing in her garden one hot humid summer I spent in East Texas. I must have been around 10. It is amazing how time passes when you sing. This is an example of call and response that was started by slaves and later common with prison chain gangs, and even during the great depression by field workers.

 
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An example of how I learned call and response from my old auntie in her garden in the remote backwoods of East Texas.
Sung to the tune and the rhythm of Hoe Emma Hoe posted above. Call and response is a musical way to have a conversation.

Auntie: Turn on around, dig a hole in the ground

Me: Hoe Deya hoe

Auntie: Get a smile on your face, lose that old ugly frown

Me: Hoe Deya hoe

Me: I work to noon, my fingers to the bone

Auntie: Hoe Deya hoe

Me: Can't call for help, cause Auntie has no phone

Auntie: Hoe Deya hoe

Me: Work till noon for baloney and sweet tea

Auntie: Hoe Deya hoe

Me: I'm hurting Auntie, cause I need to pee

Auntie: Go Deya go

Auntie: Turn on around, lay your hoe on the ground

Me: Go Deya go

Auntie: Hurry on to the outhouse, go on down

Me: Go Deya go
 
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