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On Oct 8th, 1963, though on tour, Cooke and users of his entourage were arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace when they made an effort to register in a white motel — an incident mirrored within the song’s third verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his 18-month-previous son, Vincent, who drowned that June, resonates in the fin

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