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Mountain Girls Play Jazz Glenda Bailey-Mershon (bio) This little mountain girl’s playin jazz! She can’t do that! She can’t do that! She, blue-eyed, with a tanny sorta skin Now wailin Bessie, playin Lady Wonkin Jelly with a side a fat Snappin eyes and fingers on the drum She got warriors, conjurors, Oshun come To see her play, to hear her play To watch her lay her rhythms in a line We all say Skat! This little mountain girl’s gone to Paris Stepping lively down those streets all made-a stone In Barcelona, she felt a samba kinda rhythm Samba kinda rhythm, rattlin bones And birds come shrillin straight way over swamps To bring her home Oh, sway Brazil Just a taste-a Haiti in her bumps Steel guitar fill Hot stars, cool breeze, spice enough To make you sneeze She says: Smell that juniper in the breeze! We all skat! [End Page 117] Glenda Bailey-Mershon Glenda Bailey-Mershon grew up in Greenville County, South Carolina, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her family roots on both sides lie in the Western North Carolina Mountains. She is the author of sa-co-ni-ge: blue smoke: poems from the Southern Appalachians as well as The History of the American Woman’s Movement: A Study Guide. She is a retired academic administrator, now living in St. Augustine, Florida. Copyright © 2008 Berea College
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