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Blues Fell this Morning 117: Texas Alexander’s words recall those used by the keel-boatmen of the Mississippi, the Texas cowboys or the Ohio backwoodsmen who cried that they were ‘Half-horse and half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle.’. Blues Fell this Morning 101: Unions may be casually made, with couples ‘batching up’ with little ceremony. Blues Fell this Morning 124: So a lover admires his ‘jelly bean’ and the way she can ‘jello’. Blues Fell this Morning 124: A desirable young girl is called a ‘biscuit,’ whilst the good lover is a ‘biscuit roller’. Blues Fell this Morning 124: A desirable young girl is called a ‘biscuit,’ whilst the good lover is a ‘biscuit roller’. Blues Fell this Morning 79: The extremely black-skinned man is looked down upon, the lowest grade being the ‘blue-gummed nigger’ in the Negro’s own offensive term. Blues Fell this Morning 80: To differentiate between their many shades of colour [...] ‘brightskin,’ high yaller’, ‘lemon’. Blues Fell this Morning 125: A lover may be a ‘bumble-bee’, a ‘honey-dripper’. Blues Fell this Morning 96: The cuckolded husband [...] cannot believe that the woman that he has admired and on whom he has depended so much has taken a ‘creeping man’. Blues Fell this Morning 80: Contemptuous terms [for blacks] that have long been used [...] ‘eight-ball’. Blues Fell this Morning 102: Too often fatigue makes her irritable and she has ‘her gimmies on’. Blues Fell this Morning 113: With the characteristic combination of pithiness and pitilessness that labels a legless man as ‘Halfy’. Blues Fell this Morning 125: A lover may be a ‘bumble-bee’ a ‘honey-dripper’. Blues Fell this Morning 7: From the honky-tonks of New Orleans came the ‘black butt’ pianists. Blues Fell this Morning 99: The legs of the passing brownskin girl with the side-slit ‘Mary Jane’ skirt. Blues Fell this Morning 124: So a lover admires his ‘jelly bean’ and the way she can ‘jello’. Blues Fell this Morning 124: Thus the prostitute becomes the ‘kitchen mechanic’. Blues Fell this Morning 80: To differentiate between their many shades of colour [...] ‘brightskin,’ ‘high yaller’, ‘lemon’. Blues Fell this Morning 80: To differentiate between their many shades of colour [...] ‘brightskin,’ ‘high yaller’, ‘lemon’. Blues Fell this Morning 113: A homosexual is a ‘freak’, a ‘mellow’, a ‘sissy’, or a ‘drag’. Blues Fell this Morning 113: The hermaphrodite is known as ‘Peaches’ or ‘Peach Tree’. Blues Fell this Morning 126: The Negro speaks of himself as a ‘sweet pap pigmeat’. Blues Fell this Morning 83: To improve their appearance some Negro women buy ‘rats’, ‘rats’ tails,’ or artificial hair. Blues Fell this Morning 80: Contemptuous terms that have long been used [...] ‘snowball’. Blues Fell this Morning 103: In the tight tenement communities of Harlem and Chicago’s Bronzeville. Blues fell This Morning 60: There was no room for mistakes; no second chance: the loss of a limb was the least penalty for failing to ‘nail a rattler’ successfully the first time.