>"I don’t relish explaining to my son why he can occasionally catch me absent-mindedly whistling Stephen Foster’s “Shortnin" Bread” but will never, ever hear me

>"I don’t relish explaining to my son why he can occasionally catch me absent-mindedly whistling Stephen Foster’s “Shortnin" Bread” but will never, ever hear me sing the lyrics." This really seems like an odd comment. "Shortnin Bread" is not a Stephen Foster song. It seems that someone who would take the time to point something like this out would actually know this. Further, the original plantation lyrics were no longer in use in the popular recorded versions of this song at the time Looney Tunes was producing cartoons. Perhaps the author was thinking of Camp Town Races? But again by this time the minstrel show lyric stylings had long been removed in recorded versions and the words in the lyrics themselves are just as silly as they are obscure but not racist in themselves. Both of these songs are basically part of the traditional American folk canon. I mean the Beach Boys recorded a well-known version of "Shortnin Bread."