| Description |
xxii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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score |
| Note |
For voice, in part with chorus; unaccompaniment |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Cotton and cane : solo songs. Three Moore brothers (Mr. Tom Moore) ; Poor boy (Cold penitentiary blues ; Poor boy number two) ; I can buckle a wheeler (I worked old moll) ; Yon' come Roberta ; Butt-cut ruler ; Should a been on the river in 1910 ; Roberta ; Make a longtime man feel bad ; If you see my mother ; Mack's blues (Easy rider) ; I'm so glad my time have come ; Ration blues ; Been on the chain gang -- Cotton and cane : group songs. Please have mercy on a longtime man (Walk straight ; Pull-do) ; Midnight special ; My lord says there's room enough in heaven for us all ; Grey goose ; Goodbye, my lover, goodbye ; Pick a bale of cotton ; Stewball ; Go down old Hannah ; Shorty George ; Sure make a man feel bad ; Old Aunt Dinah ; Jolly ; No more cane on the brazos (Godamighty) ; Captain don't feel sorry for a longtime man -- The songs of J.B. Smith. No more good time in the world for me ; Too much time for the crime I done ; I heard the reports of a pistol ; Ever since I been a man full grown ; Woman trouble ; The major special ; No payday here -- Axe songs : crosscutting. Jody (Jody's got my wife and gone) ; I need another witness ; Grizzly bear ; Hammer ring (Don't you hear my hammer ring ; Black Betty) ; Crooked-foot John (Lost John ; This old tree ; Long gone) ; I'm in the bottom ; Plumb the line (Down the line) ; Fallin' down (Timber gettin' limber) ; Fall tree ; So soon this evenin' (Done had my dinner) -- Axe songs : logging. Julie ; John Henry ; Take this hammer (This old hammer killed John Henry) ; Haming on a live oak log (I was down in the bottom) ; Drinkin' that wine ; Drop 'em down ; Drop 'em down together ; Believe I'll call the rider ; Choppin' Charlie ; Godamighty (I got the crane wing ; I got a record) ; Texarkana Mary (Wonder what's the matter) ; Early in the morning (Godamighty knows) -- Flatweeeding songs. Raise 'em up higher (Twenty-one hammers ; Forty-four hammers ; Alberta) ; Down the line ; Long hot summer days ; Yellow gal ; I shall not be moved ; Rattler ; Black gal ; Tampa ; On my way to Mexico -- Appendix 1 : A note on nicknames -- Appendix 2 : Responsorial patterns. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography and discography: pages 317-320. |
| Genre/Form |
Prisoners' songs.
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| Subject |
African Americans -- Texas -- Music.
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African Americans. |
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Texas. |
| Genre/Form |
Music.
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| Subject |
Work songs -- Texas.
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Work songs. |
| Genre/Form |
Songs.
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Songs.
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Music.
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| Added Title |
Afro-American worksongs from Texas prisons |
| ISBN |
0674945468 |
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