Shortnin' Bread
Traditional song
Shortnin' Bread
"Shortnin' Bread" (also spelled "Shortenin' Bread", "Short'nin' Bread", or "Sho'tnin' Bread") is an American folk song dating back at least to 1900, when James Whitcomb Riley published it as a poem. While there is speculation that Riley may have based his poem on an earlier African-American plantation song, no definitive evidence of such an origin has yet been uncovered. A "collected" version of the song was published by E. C. Perrow in 1915. It is song number 4209 in the Roud Folk Song Index. 'Shortening bread' refers to a bread made of corn meal and lard shortening, with or without flour.
Read on Wikipedia · Image Clement Wood (modified traditional words) Jacques Wolfe (arranged traditional music) G. Schirmer Co. (New York), Public domain
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