"Gone where all good niggers go!"

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I was at a supermarket checkout here in England today, and overheard a snippet of good-humoured banter from an old man in the next checkout. It went:
"Gone with the wind!!"
Then, as an afterthought, he added:
"..Gone where all good niggers go! That's what they used to say, wasn't it?!".
I'm not sure who the "they" were, who he was referring to ;-) but I don't think I've ever hear that expression before. Have you? I searched the net for an instance of that phrase, and found nothing. Anyone know where it came from? A book? A poem? A movie? Or was it just a stock phrase that has fizzled out through lack of use?

Jack

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[nq:1]I was at a supermarket checkout here in England today, and overheard a snippet of good-humoured banter from an old ... book? A poem? A movie? Or was it just a stock phrase that has fizzled out through lack of use?[/nq]
I have found a reference to something called Where All Good ******* Go by a certain Tom Woottwell see
http://freespace.virgin.net/m.killy/sing-uz.htm near the bottom. On http://www.gabrielleray.150m.com/ArchivePressText/20021221.html there is, again, near the bottom, a photo of Tom Woottwell, who was an English music-hall comedian (1865-1941). That's all I could find, I'm afraid.

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[nq:1]I was at a supermarket checkout here in England today, and overheard a snippet of good-humoured banter from an old ... Then, as an afterthought, he added: "..Gone where all good ******* go! That's what they used to say, wasn't it?!".[/nq]
The way of all fish?

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