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Carl Calls His Cousin #94: I Need That Green Light

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Suky Jumps - The Greatest Fallin in the World

I got geteveryi when i like a tobbler, like when i would go o. I was a ring bearer at my aunt's wedding, and ii came down the stairs, had my hair slickd and everything, and everyone was ga, lover boy. Ehha, haa mer all sucky. Nowis 19 seventy's colloquial expression i sucky has is source in the nineteenth century terms, sucky jump. Suky jumps is long obsolete. Nineteenth century and early twentieth century african american english referent for country dance gatherings for black folks. And the fast pace dance music tha was performed at those gatherings were named sucky jumps as a reference to black

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