[Dixielandjazz] Black and Blue significance

[Len Nielsen]

Browns and yellers,   all have fellers,
   gentlemen prefer them    light,///

The above is an excerpt from the verse as written in an e-mail from
David Littlefield.

Listers to this point have indicated that this is a song sung by a dark,
black man who is unhappy with his fate.

However, if these are the original lyrics, it would seem to me that they
have been written to be sung by a woman. She is concerned that gentlemen
like them light is she not? 

Len Nielsen

Victoria, Canada  

Nancy wrote
Hi, Steve,
In a conversation with Tommy Loy when he was out here last year, he said
that it was written because he was having a
clandestine affair with a white woman and was frustrated that he
couldn't be out in the open with the truth.
What say ye, Bob Romans, Bill Gunter, Rebecca, Jim Beebe, Bob Ringwald,
or anyone else to whom he may have told this?
BTW: Didn't Tommy sing it so well, and with so much heart? Wonderful.