“We can sit up front now because we crossed the Mason Dixie line,”
When we got to Philadelphia folks got out the bus and me and Slim got ourselves a new seat smackdab up front in the driver’s window, and bought-up some ice-cold soda orange and ain’t nothin better when you feel sickish. Slim said “We can sit up front now because we crossed the Mason Dixie line,” and I axed him what that was, and he said it was the line of the law for Jim Crow, and when I axed him who Jim Crow was, he said “That’s you, boy.”
