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Them's called Hoakum songs, son. Examples are Bo carter's "bananas In Your Fruit Basket" and Bessie Smith's "kitchen Man."Samples include the imooratl, ""Crave his cabbage/Lobve his hams/[I'm] Wild about his candied Yams/Can't do without my kitchen man/When I eats his donut/All I leave is his hole . . ." Subtle, it's not.