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"" is a classic folk-blues song written and popularized by the legendary Elizabeth Cotten . Origins and Composition

: Some scholars believe the word is a corruption of "shegureh," a West African percussion instrument made of a gourd enclosed in a bead net. Shake Sugaree

The song was recorded in the mid-1960s and serves as the title track for her 1967 album on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings . "" is a classic folk-blues song written and