[Dixielandjazz] Black and Tans

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In a message dated 29/01/03 14:51:31 GMT Standard Time, 
rakmccallum at hotmail.com writes:

<< I believe
 it originally meant a club where both light and dark black people met. >>

Hi Rob,

Doesn`t  Basin Street Blues , before the words were messed about by the PC 
brigade , say 
`Down where the dark and light folk meet`.

In any case the old saw

White, well all right
Brown , stick around
Black, stand back

refers directly to varying skin colour.

Cheers

PatL