Abbey Lincoln Smithsonian Interview Block 41 (Q11799)

Yes, they were all songs that we learned in church. Mama told me when she was a little girl that she was singing the song in the house one day because some of these songs are really old. "He may be a man, but he sure comes to see me some time" and her mother slapped her and she knew better than to sing such things, you know. So, we didn't -- they were song that I'd hear at church. By the time ...