Quotation
- Oh listen you men, I don't mean no harm
- If you wanna do good, you better stay off old Parchman Farm
- We got to work in the mornin', just at dawn of day
- Just at the settin' of the sun, that's when the work is done
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- Bukka White, "Parchman Farm Blues"
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