"Kansas City Shuffle" is a song by jazz pianist Bennie Moten. It was recorded in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois and released on the Victor record label.
The song refers to an advanced form of confidence game employing misdirection, subterfuge, and playing on the "mark's" arrogance and/or self-loathing.
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“Kansas City is lost; I am here!”
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“Since the Civil War its six states have produced fewer political ideas, as political ideas run in the Republic, than any average county in Kansas or Nebraska.”
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“Union of the weakest develops strength
Not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge
One of the leaves that have fallen in autumn?
But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.”
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