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SHOE - GRAVEYARD DIRT IN LEFT
Volume 4, entries 7894. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → WHAT TO DO WITH GRAVEYARD DIRT. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7894
Take yuh shoes an' put graveyard dirt in 'em an' go ahead ovah de rivah, de left-foot shoe. De right-foot shoe don' 'mount tuh nuthin. It's de left-foot shoe.
(What will that do then?)
Well, yo' jis' drifts away. (Sends them away.) [That expression ovah de rivah in New Orleans means across the river in Algiers, the west bank of the Mississippi, in Algiers it means across the river in New Orleans. Here the words apparently mean send you away.]