Johnny Depp and English music legend Jeff Beck have been accused of plagiarizing a folk ballad performed by a prison inmate on their new collaborative album, 18
In 1964, the folklorist Bruce Jackson met Slim, whose real name is Willie Davis, at Missouri State Penitentiary, where Slim recited poetry and toasts — a bawdy and comical form of Black narrative poetry.Article content
Jackson recorded and included a transcription of the toast ‘Hobo Ben’ in his 1974 book “Get Your Ass in The Water and Swim Like Me.” Nearly 60 years after Slim’s recorded performance, the lines “I’m raggedy, I know, but I have no stink,” “God bless the lady that’ll buy me a drink,” and “What that funky motherfucker really needs, child, is a bath” also appear on song.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“The only two lines I could find in the whole piece that contributed are ‘Big time motherfucker’ and ‘Bust it down to my level,’” said Jackson.
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