This is one of the foremost protest songs of all times, let alone the 1930s. This is a song that was many years ahead of its time. The song more or less speaks for itself. I understand that the word, "bourgeois" is used because Leadbelly just learned it on the car ride up to D.C. with Lomax and simply loved how it sounded.
This is one of the foremost protest songs of all times, let alone the 1930s. This is a song that was many years ahead of its time. The song more or less speaks for itself. I understand that the word, "bourgeois" is used because Leadbelly just learned it on the car ride up to D.C. with Lomax and simply loved how it sounded.