: Some scholars believe the word is a corruption of "shegureh," a West African percussion instrument made of a gourd enclosed in a bead net.
The song was recorded in the mid-1960s and serves as the title track for her 1967 album on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings . Shake Sugaree
The term "Sugaree" and the refrain "shake sugaree" have several interpretations: : Some scholars believe the word is a