HDAS, 1975: "... five on the white man's side ..."

[Wilson Gray]

"Five on the Black Hand Side" : the title of a 1973 blaxploitation flick.

Lest there be misunderstanding, my point is not the dating, but only the
similarity of construction. I haven't heard either of these in the wild,
but, my intuition is that these were once a set:

Five on the white man['s] side!
Now, five on the black hand side!

It's too much like "right" to be "wrong."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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