The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-17

ne asphalt hearts OF Northornets IN the brCl
brownstone marts Of trade and traffic:
chicken. beamug mammies. nclds white
cotton the whlstle Of the Robert r. Lee
1mbroslal weather, darkles hummln' b.
strummn Ephralm and Sammy slngln' on
lcvcc. the oil folks nt home the OF cabin
the cute black picks the moonlight on the
pliug river
Surely, II Is hard TO sing
Minnesota or rhyme Oregon ii
is useless 10 apostrophise Brook q
lyn or weep over the beach OF
Lake Michigan. Millions who
have never been south Of TerTe S&e
llaute have wept and gurgled
over the homesickness of Dixies
wandering children and their
eager longing 10 be back below. L
where the very things that grow AM
are poetic and where the g" is NM
silent and the "a" Is broad eM
And Of late there has been
food of rolling home" dttles. Sg
The lost children of the South, M
who for decades had been mere 81
y pining whining and wishing
started suddenly returnlng-and
lhey all went rolling home"
and 1t always rhymed with roll. Es
ing stone" whether IL rhymed
or not 1t was beautiful. Each
new song quoted the one just
past verbatim and ad inhntum,
and added some more honey.
drips and made the nanny who
was only BLACK" In the irst
coal black" In the secondhand =.
even dragged In the oil mule and
gave nanny uame-'Jinny"
and replaced the Mississippi
from Georgia In one ballad to
Virginia In another. and the land
was alive with music and the royalties piled
on the Glusburgs and the Kellys and the OF
tlnpan bards who went South with the none
South as far as the bank on the South end
Longacre Square
Dixie Daisy. true rolling stone who had ro
across the Mason-Dixon llne--and had roll
many victim among the enemy Yanks--used
enjoy many chortle over the absurd blu
When she heard stout character wcmen and Il
comics In tight trousers stop their kidding S
into the amber spot, respectfully remove
prop hat tif mael and go into" so1biug
sion with the latest Dixie classic and stop
show she had herself many quiet ggglo
II took more than the surefire stuff from
surefre staff of the sheet-music publishers
make her feel blue and homesTtk In the
tcular suburb Of the individual town in Geo
whence she had sprung (eaped would ansv
too), the Suwanee wasn't anywhere in sight
had seen that river cnce-once was enough.
had no nanny jimmy. In truth. she was VIII
she was out Of luck for most of the nam
songs seem 10 have black application. thol
they are nasally hammered by many Caucasi
who don't scent the difference.
Daisy had no recolectons OF levees, 60 n pc
possum, steamboats, mules or strummng ban
She knew nobody at all named EUhraim, andy
few people In the South named Sammy, Though
New York she had met plenty and few Jakes
we'll She had mother; also father q
father doesn't seem to belong, somehow. in
Southern picture--the songwrters never ment
him except to hll in line.
Where Daisy had spent her youth. there "
street cars telephones canned vegetables, pho
graphs curling irons, table a hotes and ot
modern blessings, aud she had never really mis-
the moonlight on de ribba or the snowy fields
white She had rolled away on a train equipI
with Pullmans, and she had written a postal no
every month or so, therefore had never felt q
sungns grief over having SO long neglected
OF black nanny which the song poets from r
sia and Fiatbush all seemed 10 stag-er under.
And SO Dixie Daisy, who occasionally fell Il
a vaudeville theatre had no conscience gnaw
at her Nitals when a tramp juggler tore of
hrimless hat and tore into his Dixie lament WI
mis- partner accompanied him on buck-saw q
be tickled with "a hammer
She realized. OF course, that she was every d
drawing down more royalties on the vast free
yertisiug that these plugeers were giving the
gion of her birth, Her Southern dialect was fra
and orthodox, aud she found the world giving
kindly soft glances on the presumption that
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