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Song o' the Day-"Mississippi Mud"
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New Orleans JAZZ NHP’s Song o’ the Day:
“Mississippi Mud”
“To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.” That statement ranks as the best assessment of political performance of which I am aware. And, the utterer of such profundity should know – he earned a Political Science Master’s Degree from Louisiana State University, in 1940. For a short time after that, Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. taught Poly Sci right there in Baton Rouge, La., while sharing classes with future Senator Russell B. Long.
On his way to becoming Vice President Hubert Humphrey, he left our end of the Mississippi River and returned to his family home in Minnesota, where that mighty waterway begins. Later, he credited his time downriver with his realization that he had been a “conventional northern liberal,” admitting, "My abstract commitment to civil rights was given flesh and blood during my year in Louisiana,".
So on this May 27th, V.P. Triple H’s birthday (1911), we’ll celebrate his growth up & down our River with a Park-produced ditty describing “a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud”!
From: Songs of the Mississippi River
Produced by: New Orleans JAZZ National Historical Park
Written by: James Cavanaugh, Harry Barris/Shapiro Bernstein
Performed by: Paul Kovac (vocals), Jen Maur (vocals, kazoo, banjo), Jim Hession (piano)
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