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Ring Ring the Banjo

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Five Little Monkeys

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My Old Kentucky Home

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Dixie

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Miss Lucy Had a Baby

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Old Aunt Dinah

This song has roots in oppression. “Dinah” is a caricature of the African American “Mammy.” “ ..these caricatures were used to defend and romanticize slavery, and the characters were never shown as particularly smart or able to function well outside their role as domestic servants, ...

Polly Wolly Doodle

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Boatman Dance

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Pick a Bale of Cotton

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Shoo Fly

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