Mannish Boy

Name: Mannish Boy
Uploaded: 1955-01-01
Duration: 5 min 30 s
Description: Written by Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, and Mel London, this 1955 blues standard serves as an answer song to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man". Its assertion "I'm a man" was understood as political, claiming black manhood in a South where black men were called "boy".

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1955 blues

Written by Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, and Mel London, this 1955 blues standard serves as an answer song to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man". Its assertion "I'm a man" was understood as political, claiming black manhood in a South where black men were called "boy".