In 1959, Charles Mingus composed Fables of Faubus for his amazing album, Ah Um, in response to Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas. Live versions like this one included more lyrics, call and response, and notably he performed it often. From Wikipedia: Critic Don Heckman commented of the unedited "Original Faubus Fables" in a 1962 review that it was "a classic Negro put-down in which satire becomes a deadly rapier-thrust. Faubus emerges in a glare of ridicule as a mock villain whom no-one really takes seriously. This kind of commentary, brimful of feeling, bitingly direct and harshly satiric, appears far too rarely in jazz."
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