Miss Sue From Alabama

Miss Sue From Alabama is a song sung by African American children in the South during at the turn of the century. The children would then dance with each other. Miss Sue was, in African American folklore, a prostitute that lured White men to bed and then manipulated them into doing favors for the Black men on the plantation. She was somewhat of a spy an undercover agent that worked in behalf of Black men.^{[citation needed]}

The song was recorded in 1934, 1939^[1]

References

1. ^ Check-list of recorded songs in the English language in the Archive of Folk Songs