of this is popular children's song of old, "On Top of Old Smokey," where Leadbelly is listed as a songwriter, as is Lomax, who had a tendency to accept credit whenever humanly possible.
             Without John Lomax, there would be no Leadbelly today. For all of his ego, it should be noted that he deserves a lot of credit for all he's done for modern music, I'll even go so far as to say he deserves to be m
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