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Spent an inordinate amount of time today contemplating this 1928 record, "Sal, Let Me Chaw Your Rosin," & the same tune under the names "Hog Eye" (Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers, also 1928), & "Sally in the Garden." Is it also "Jump Jim Crow," the song that launched blackface minstrelsy 100 years earlier? And a sea chantey, "Hog Eye Man," maybe from a (19th century or earlier) black work song on the Mississippi