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Naorman Span - AKA King Radio - wrote the song "Man Smart, Woman Smarter" which was popularized by Harry Belafonte, The Grateful Dead and others. Here is some more info I gathered online... Man Smart (Woman Smarter) Lyrics: Norman Span Music: Norman Span Bob Weir introduced this song to the Grateful Dead in 1981, and played it regularly from then on. Origins The liner notes for the "Calypso At Midnight" CD (from a concert in 1946 hosted by Alan Lomax, with three New York based calypso singers, the Duke of Iron, Macbeth the Great, and Lord Invader) say this about "Man Smart": "The song is one of several important calypsos composed and first performed in Trinidad Carnival tents by King Radio (One-Eye Norman Span). He recorded the piece in New York for Decca (17287) on April 6, 1936. In 1945, Macbeth the Great cut a version for Guild (115). In the late 1950s, the song was a big hit for the West Indian-American singer Harry Belafonte." Thanks to Dick Rosemont, this is King Radio's version, backed by Gerald Clark and his Caribbean Serenaders (though Dick gives the date of this recording as 9 April 1939): Let us put men and women together To find out which one is smarter Some say men, but I say no The women got the men like [lavabo] Chorus Not me, it's the people who say That the men are leading the women astray But I say, oh Lord, that the women of today Smarter than men in every way Ever since the world began Women was a

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