"Shortening Bread" was first published in 1900 as a poem by James Riley, who seemed to suggest that it was derived from a pre-existing black folk song.

My instrument is an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo tuned eBEG♯B ~ fCFAC ~ gDGBD.

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