Negro Workaday Songs- Odum & Johnson 1926

"Negro Workaday Songs" by Howard Odum and Guy Johnson- 1926
  
[This page contains: 1) Preface, 2) Contents, 3) Bibliography and 4) Index. The individual chapters are found attached to this page on the left-hand column]

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: SOCIAL STUDY SERIES

NEGRO WORKADAY SONGS

BY  HOWARD W. ODUM, Ph.D.

Kenan Professor of Sociology and Director of the School of Public Welfare, University of North Carolina

AND  GUY B. JOHNSON, A.M.

Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina

CHAPEL HILL THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1926


A vast throng of Negro workaday singers, mirrors of a race Workingmen in the Southern United States from highway, construction camp, from railroad and farm,  from city and countryside, a million strong

A half million migrants from the South, Eastward,  Northward, Westward, and some South again

Negro offenders in thousand fold in local jails, county  chain gangs, state and federal prisons

A horde of Southern casual laborers and wanderers  down that lonesome road

A brown black army of "bad men" — creepers and  ramblers and jamboree breakers, "travelin' men" de luxe

Itinerant full-handed musicianers, music physicianers  and songsters, singly, in pairs, quartets, always moving on

A host of women workers from field and home and factory at once singers and subjects of the lonesome blues

A swelling crescendo, a race vibrato inimitable, descriptive index of group character, folk urge and race power

PREFACE

Negro Workaday Songs is the third volume of a series  of folk background studies of which The Negro and His Songs was the first and Folk-Beliefs of the Southern Negro was the second. The series will include a number  of other volumes on the Negro and likewise a number presenting folk aspects of other groups. The reception  which the first volumes have received gives evidence  that the plan of the series to present scientific, descriptive, and objective studies in as interesting and  readable form as possible may be successful in a  substantial way. Since the data for background  studies are, for the time being, practically unlimited,  it is hoped that other volumes, appearing as they  become available and timely, may glimpse the whole range — from the Negro "bad man" to the aesthetic in  the folk urge.

In this volume, as in previous ones, the emphasis  is primarily social, although this indicates no lack of  appreciation of the inherent literary and artistic values  of the specimens presented. Indeed, so far as possible,  all examples of folk expression in this volume are left  to tell their own story. The type melodies and  musical notations are presented separately with the  same descriptive purpose as the other chapters, and  they are not offered as a substitute for effective harmonies and musical interpretation. For the purposes  of J this volume, however, the separate chapters on  the melodies and phono-photographic records with  musical notations are very important. It is also important that they be studied separately, but in the  light of the preceding chapters, rather than inserted  in the text to detract from both the social and artistic interpretation of the songs enumerated.

The Seashore-Metfessel phono-photographic records  and musical notations mark an important contribution  to the whole field of interpretation of Negro music.  There may be an outstanding contribution both to the  musical world and to the whole interpretation of  Negro backgrounds in the possible thesis that the  Negro, in addition to his distinctive contribution to harmony, excels also in the vibrato quality of the  individual voice. These studies were made at Chapel  Hill and at Hampton by Dr. Carl E. Seashore and Dr. Milton Metfessel of the University of Iowa, under  the auspices of the Institute for Research in Social  Science at the University of North Carolina through  a special grant of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller  Memorial. Full acknowledgment to them is here  made.

It should be kept constantly in mind that this  volume, like The Negro and His Songs, is in no sense an anthology or general collection, but represents the  group of songs current in certain areas in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, during  the years 1924-25. Of course all of this collection  cannot be included in this volume; and no doubt many of the most important or most attractive specimens  extant have escaped us at this time. It is also important to note that in this volume, as in the previous  one, all speciments listed, except lines or references  otherwise designated, were taken directly from Negro  singers and do not represent reports from memory of  white individuals. So far as we know none of the songs in this collection has been published, although  there are countless variations, adaptations and corruptions of the modern blues and jazz songs represented in the group. The songs, however, were all sung or repeated by actual Negro workers or singers, and much of their value lies in the exact transcription  of natural lines, words, and mixtures. The collection  is still growing by leaps and bounds. In this volume  every type is represented except the "dirty dozen"  popular models and the more formal and sophisticated creations.

Since this volume presents a series of pictures of the  Negro as portrayed through his workaday songs it is  important that all chapters be read before any final  judgment is made. Even then the picture will not be  complete. It has not been possible, of course, to make  any complete or accurate classification of the songs.  They overlap and repeat. They borrow sentiment and  expression and repay freely. Free labor song becomes  prison song, and chain gang melody turns to pick-and-shovel accompaniment. The chapter divisions, therefore, are made with the idea of approximating a usable  classification and providing such mechanical divisions  as will facilitate the best possible presentation.

The reader who approaches this volume from the  point of view of the technical student of folk song will  likely be disappointed at what he considers the lack  of discrimination displayed by the authors in admitting  so many songs which cannot be classed as strictly folk  songs. We have frankly taken the position that these  semi-folk songs, crude and fragmentary, and often  having only local or individual significance, afford  even more accurate pictures of Negro workaday life  and art than the conventional folk songs. While we  have spared no effort to make the collection valuable  for folk song students, we have approached the work  primarily as sociologists.

For assistance in recording the type melodies in  Chapter XIV we are specially indebted to Mr. Lee M.  Brooks, and for many of the songs of women to Mrs.  Henry Odum. We wish to thank Mr. Gerald W.  Johnson for his goodness in going over much of the  manuscript and making valuable suggestions. To  Dr. L. R. Wilson, Director of the University of North  Carolina Press, we are much indebted for cooperation  and suggestions.

Chapel Hill H. W. 0.

January, 1926 G. B. J.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Background Resources in Negro Song and Work 1

II. The Blues: Workaday Sorrow Songs 17

III. Songs of the Lonesome Road 35

IV. Bad Man Ballads and Jamboree 47

V. Songs of Jail, Chain Gang, and Policemen . 71

VI. Songs of Construction Camps and Gangs . . 88

VII. Just Songs to Help With Work 118

VIII. Man's Song of Woman 135

IX. Woman's Song of Man 152

X. Folk Minstrel Types 166 V

XI. Workaday Religious Songs 188

XII. The Annals and Blues of Left Wing Gordon . 206 t/

XIII. John Henry: Epic of the Negro Workingman 221

XIV. Types of Negro Melodies 241

XV. Types of Phono-photographic Records of

Negro Singers 252

Bibliography 265

Index to Songs 271

NEGRO WORKADAY SONGS SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
This bibliography is not intended to cover all that has been written on  Negro songs. It includes references to actual collections of songs and to a few  other contributions which are of value to the serious student of Negro songs.  Dozens of merely appreciative articles have been omitted. For a larger  bibliography one may consult the latest issue of the Negro Year Book.

BOOKS

Abbot, F. H., and Swan, A. J., Eight Negro Songs. Enoch &  Sons, New York, 1923. Eight songs from Bedford County,
Virginia. Explanatory comments and notes on dialect are given  for each song.

Allen, W. F., and others, Slave Songs of the United States.  New York, 1867. Words and music of 136 songs are given.

Armstrong, M. F., Hampton and Its Students. New York,  1874. Fifty plantation songs.

Ballanta, N. G. J., St. Helena Island Spirituals. G. Schirmer, New York, 1925. A collection of 115 spirituals from Penn  School, St. Helena Island. This island is off the coast of South  Carolina, and its semi-isolation makes it an interesting field for
the study of Negro songs. Ballanta's work is prefaced by a  valuable but somewhat pedantic discussion of Negro music.

Burlin, Natalie Curtis, Negro Folk-Songs. G. Schirmer,  New York, 1918-19. Four small volumes of Negro songs recorded at Hampton Institute. Volumes I and II are spirituals,  volumes III and IV are work songs and play songs. These songs
are of special value in that the late Mrs. Burlin came nearer than  any one else to the accurate reproduction of Negro songs in musical  notation.

Campbell, Olive Dame, and Sharp, Cecil J., English  Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. The student who is  interested in the origin of Negro songs and their relation to  English folk songs will find valuable data in this book.

Cox, J. H., Folk Songs of the South. Harvard University  Press, 1924. Most of these songs are songs of the whites of the
mountains, but they are particularly valuable in that they throw light on the origin of many Negro songs.

Fenner, T. P., Religious Folk Songs of the American Negro.  Hampton Institute Press, 1924. (Arranged in 1909 by the
Musical Directors of Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute from the original edition by Thomas P. Fenner. Reprinted in
1924.) This volume contains the words and music of 153 religious songs.

Fenner, T. P., and Rathbun, F. G., Cabin and Plantation  Songs. New York, 1891. Old Negro plantation songs with  music.

Hallowell, Emily, Calhoun Plantation Songs. New York,  1910. A number of songs with music collected from the singing
of Negroes on the Calhoun plantation.

Harris, Joel Chandler, Uncle Remus, His Songs and  Sayings. New York, 1880. Nine songs.

Harris, Joel Chandler, Uncle Remus and His Friends.  New York, 1892. Sixteen songs.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Army Life in a Black  Regiment. Boston, 1870. Chapter IX of this book is devoted to
Negro spirituals as they were sung in Col. Higginson's regiment  during the Civil War.

Hobson, Anne, In Old Alabama. New York, 1903. Ten dialect stories and songs.

Johnson, James Weldon, The Book of American Negro  Spirituals. Viking Press, New York, 1925. A collection of sixty-
one spirituals. Most of these songs have been published in other  collections, but the musical arrangements in this volume are new.  While the melodies of the old songs are retained intact, an effort  has been made to improve the rhythmic qualities of the accompaniments. The preface of the book is devoted to the origin,  development, and appreciation of Negro spirituals.

Kennedy, R. Emmet, Black Cameos. A. & C. Boni, New  York, 1924. A collection of twenty-eight stories, mostly humorous, with songs interwoven. The words and music of seventeen  songs are given.

Kennedy, R. Emmet, Mellows: Work Songs, Street Cries and  Spirituals. A. & C. Boni, New York, 1925. Several spirituals and
street songs from New Orleans. The author includes character  sketches of his singers. His discussion of the relation of Negro
songs to printed ballad sheets is especially interesting.

Krehbiel, H. E., Afro-American Folk Songs. G. Schirmer,  New York and London, 1914. A careful study of Negro folk songs
from the point of view of the skilled musician. Songs and music from Africa and other sources are analyzed and compared with
American Negro productions. The music of sixty or more songs and dance airs is given.

Marsh, J. B. T., The Story of the Jubilee Singers. Boston 1880. An account of the Jubilee Singers, with their songs.

Odum, Howard W., and Johnson, Guy B., The Negro and  His Songs. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill,  1925. A study of the origin and characteristic of Negro songs  from the historical and sociological point of view. The words of  200 songs are given. The songs are discussed under three general  classes: spirituals, social songs, and work songs.

Peterson, C. G., Creole Songs from New Orleans. New  Orleans, 1902.

Pike, G. D., The Jubilee Singers. Boston and New York,  1873. Sixty-one religious songs.

Scarborough, Dorothy, On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1925. One of the most
important contributions yet made to the study of Negro songs.  This book presents some 200 secular songs, including the music  of most of them. Especially interesting is the chapter on "The  Negro's part in the Transmission of Traditional Songs and
Ballads." The lack of any sort of index somewhat decreases the  value of the book for purposes of reference and comparison.

Talley, Thomas W., Negro Folk Rhymes. Macmillan, New  York, 1922. This volume contains about 350 rhymes and songs
and a study of the origin, development, and characteristics of  Negro rhymes. Besides a general index of songs, a comparative
index is included.

Work, John Wesley, Folk Songs of the American Negro.  Fisk University Press, Nashville, 1915. The words of fifty-five
songs and music of nine, together with a study of the origin and  growth of certain songs.

PERIODICALS

Adventure Magazine. The files of this magazine for the last  few years should be of considerable interest to the student of folk
song. A department called "Old Songs That Men Have Sung"  is conducted by Dr. R. W. Gordon, a Harvard-trained student
of folk song. Many of the songs printed in this department are  Negro songs or Negro adaptions.

Backus, E. M., "Negro Songs from Georgia," Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 10, pp. 116, 202, 216; vol. 11, pp. 22, 60.
Six religious songs.

Backus, E. M., "Christmas Carols from Georgia," Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 12, p. 272. Two songs.

Barton, W. E., "Hymns of Negroes," New England Magazine, vol. 19, pp. 669 et seq., 706 et seq. A number of songs with  some musical notation and discussion.

Bergen, Mrs. F. D., "On the Eastern Shore," Journal of  American Folk-Lore, vol. 2, pp. 296-298. Two fragments, with  a brief discussion of the Negroes of the eastern shore of Maryland.

Brown, J. M., "Songs of the Slave," Lippincotts, vol. 2,  pp. 617-623. Several songs with brief comments.

Cable, George W., "Creole Slave Songs," Century, vol. 31,  pp. 807-828. Twelve songs with some fragments, music of
seven.

Clarke, Mary Almsted, "Song Games of Negro Children in  Virginia," Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 3, pp. 288-290.
Nine song games and rhymes.

Cox, J. H., "John Hardy," Journal of American Folk-Lore,  vol. 32, p. 505 et seq. Here will be found Cox's discussion of the
John Hardy or John Henry story, together with several versions  of the song.

Garnett, L. A., "Spirituals," Outlook, vol. 30, p. 589.  Three religious songs. However, they appear to have been
polished considerably by the writer.

Haskell, M. A., "Negro Spirituals," Century, vol. 36, pp.  577 et seq. About ten songs with music.

Higginson, T. W., "Hymns of Negroes," Atlantic Monthly,  vol. 19, pp. 685 et seq. Thirty-six religious and two secular
songs, with musical notation.

Lemmerman, K., "Improvised Negro Songs," New Republic  vol. 13, pp. 214-215. Six religious songs or improvised fragments.

Lomax, J. A., "Self-pity in Negro Folk Song," Nation,  vol. 105, pp. 141-145. About twenty songs, some new, others
quoted from Perrow and Odum, with discussion.

"Negro Hymn of Day of Judgment," Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 9, p. 210. One religious song.

Niles, Abbe, "Blue Notes," New Republic, vol. 45, pp. 292-3.  A discussion of the significance of the blues and the music of the
blues. The style is somewhat too verbose and technical for the  average reader.

Odum, Anna K., "Negro Folk Songs from Tennessee,"  Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 27, pp. 255-265. Twenty-one religious and four secular songs.

Odum, Howard W., "Religious Folk Songs of the Southern  Negroes," Journal of Religious Psychology and Education, vol.
3, pp. 265-365. About one hundred songs.

Odum, Howard W., "Folk Song and Folk Poetry as Found in  the Secular Songs of the Southern Negroes," Journal of American
Folk-Lore, vol. 35, pp. 223-249; 351-396. About 120 songs.

Odum, Howard W., "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." Country  Gentleman, March, 1926, pp. 18-19, 49-50. Several religious
songs with discussion.

Odum, Howard W., "Down that Lonesome Road." Country  Gentleman, May, 1926, pp. 18-19, 79. Several secular songs,
music of six, some new and some quoted from The Negro and His  Songs and from the present collection.

Peabody, Charles, "Notes on Negro Music," Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 16, pp. 148-52. Observations on the
technique of the Negro workman in the South, with some songs  and music.

Perkins, A. E., "Spirituals from the Far South," Journal of  of American Folk-Lore, vol. 35, pp. 223-249. Forty-seven songs.

Perrow, E. C, "Songs and Rhymes from the South," Journal  of American Folk-Lore, vol. 25, pp. 137-155; vol. 26, pp. 123-173;
vol. 28, pp. 129-190. A general collection containing 118 Negro  songs, mostly secular.

Redfearn, S. F., "Songs from Georgia," Journal of American  Folk-Lore, vol. 34, pp. 121-124. One secular and three religious
songs.

Speers, M. W. F., "Negro Songs and Folk-Lore," Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 23, pp. 435-439. One religious and one
secular song.

Steward, T. G., "Negro Imagery," New Republic, vol. 12,  p. 248. One religious improvisation, with discussion.

Thanet, Octave, "Cradle Songs of Negroes in North Carolina," Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 7, p. 3 10. Two lullabies.

Truitt, Florence, "Songs from Kentucky," Journal of  American Folk-Lore, vol. 36, pp. 376-379. Four white songs, one of which contains several verses often found in Negro songs.

Webb, W. P., "Notes on Folk-Lore of Texas," Journal of  American Folk-Lore, vol. 28, pp. 290-299. Five secular songs.

 

INDEX TO SONGS-  PAGE

A Creeper's Been 'Roun' Dis Do' 149

A Nigger's Hard to Fool 180

A Vampire of Your Own 143

All Boun' in Prison 79

All Right 109

All Us Niggers 'hind de Bars 87

Angels Lookin' at Me 198

Baby, Why Don't You Treat Me Right? 148

Bad Man Lazarus 50

Bear Cat Down in Georgia 121

Berda, You Come Too Soon 128

Better'n I Has at Home 85

Billy Bob Russell 54

Bloodhoun' on My Track 66

Bolin Jones 62

Boys, Put Yo' Hands on It 107

Buffalo Bill 67

Can Any One Take Sweet Mama's Place ? 156

Captain, Captain, Let Wheelers Roll 102

Captain, I'll Be Gone 100

Captain, I Wanta Go Home 45

Casey Jones 126

Chain Gang Blues 78

Chicken Never Roost Too High fo' Me 133

Co'n Bread 181

Creepin' 'Roun' 63

Daddy Mine 155

Darlin', Get on de Road 132

Das 'Nough Said 130

Dat Brown Gal Baby Done Turn Me Down .... 137

Dat Chocolate Man 161

Dat Leadin' Houn' 67

Dat Nigger o' Mine Don't Love Me No Mo' .... 162

Dat Sly Gal . 164

De Chocolate Gal 153

De Co't House in de Sky 184

De Devil's Been to My House 193

De Goat's Got a Smell 131

De Mulatto Gal 153

De Woman Am de Cause of It All
a. . .  142
b . . . 143

De Women Don't Love Me No Mo' 141

Dem Chain Gang Houn's 86

Dem Longin', Wantin' Blues 162

Dem Turrible R ! ed Hot Blues 130

Dere's a Lizzie After My Man 163

Dere's Misery in Dis Lan' 161

Dew-Drop Mine 149

Dey Got Each and de Udder's Man 144

Dey's Hangin' 'roun' Her Do' 148

Diamond Joe 130

Didn't Ol' Pharaoh Get Lost? 191

Dig-a My Grave Wid a Silver Spade 129

Don't Fool Wid Me 63

Don't Wanta See Her No Mo' 137

Don't You Give Me No Cornbread ......... 105

Don't You Hear? 68

Don't You Two-time Me 156

Dove Came Down by the Foot of My Bed 127

Dupree 55

Dupree's Jail Song 123

Dupree Tol' Betty 57

Everybody Call Me the Wages Man 116

"Free Labor" Gang Song 90

Give Me a Teasin' Brown 146

Go 'Long Mule 177

Goin' Back to de Gang 86

Goin' Down Dat Lonesome Road 46

Gonna Turn Back Pharaoh's Army 191

Good Lawd, I Am Troubled 192

Good Morning, Mr. Epting 171

Goodby, Sing Hallelu 205

goodby, sookie 131

Got Me in the Calaboose 76

Great Scots, You Don't Know What to Do . . . . 132

Gwine to Git a Home By an' By 176

Have Everlastin' Life 194

He Got My Gal 151

He-i-Heira 92

He Run Me In 131

He Tuck Her Away 149

He Wus de Gov'nor of Our Clan 127

Help Me Drive 'Em 109

Hi, Jenny, Ho, Jenny Johnson 185

Home Again, Home Again 150

Honey Baby 145

Hot Flambotia an' Coffee Strong 112

Hump-back Mule 179

I Ain't Done Nothin' 69

I Ain't Free 71

I Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Make a Fool Out o' Me . 128

I Ain't No Stranger 159

I Am Ready For de Fight 64

I Belong to Steel-drivin' Crew 110

I Bid You a Long Farewell 197

I Brung a Gal From Tennessee 137

I Calls My Jesus King Emanuel 205

I Can't Keep From Cryin' 40

I Done Sol' My Soul to de Devil 158

I Don't Feel Welcome Here 164

I Don't Love Him No Mo' 162

I Don't Mind Bein' in Jail 77

Don't Want No Trouble Wid de Walker . . . . . 113

Don't Wa'nt No Cornbread 114

Don't Want You All to Grieve After Me . . . . 197

Got a Gal an' I Can't Git Her 147

Got a Letter, Captain 82

Got a Letter From My Man 158

Got a Muley 120

Got Another Daddy 165

Got Chickens on My Back 128

Got My Man 150

Love Jesus 195

Never Will Turn Back 200

Rather Be in My Grave 38

Steal Dat Corn 68

Tol' My Cap'n That My Feet Was Col' 102

Wants to Go to Heaven 203

Went to de Jail House 79

Went to See My Gal 147

Wish I Was Dead 39

Wish I Was Single Again 163

If Dere's a Man in de Moon 143

If I Can Git to Georgia Line 75

If I'd A-known My Cap'n Was Blin' 101

If You Want to See a Pretty Girl 145

I'm a Natural-bo'n Ram'ler 65

I'm Comin' Back 85

I'm de Hot Stuff Man 65

I'm de Rough Stuff 69

I'm Fishin' Boun' 181

I'm Goin' Back Home 96

I'm Goin' Home, Buddie 43

I'm Goin' On 112

I'm Goin' Out West 124

I'm Gonna Get Me Another Man 165

I'm Gonna Have Me a Red Ball All My Own . . . 132

In de Mornin' Soon 201

I's a Natural-bo'n Eastman 68

I's Done Spot My Nigger 150

I's Dreamin' of You 154

I's Gonna Shine 204

I's Havin' a Hell of a Time 138

I's Swingin' in de Swinger 204

Jail House Wail 73

Jes' Behol' What a Number 194

Jes' Fer a Day . 87

John Henry (See Chapter XIII) . . 221-240

Judge Gonna Sentence Us So Long 80

Julia Long 125

July's for the Red-bug . . 106

Kitty Kimo 187

Lawd, She Keep on Worryin' Me 136

Lawd, Lawd, I'm on My Way 46

Lawdy, What i Gonna Do? 139

Layin' Low 62

Left Wing Gordon (See Chapter XII) 206-221

Long, Tall, Brown-skin Girl 146

Lookin' Over in Georgia 121

Mammy-in-law Done Turn Me Out 141

Missus in de Big House 117

Mule on the Mountain 119

My Black Jack 155

My Gal's a High Bo'n Lady 145

My Girl She's Gone and Left Me 136

My Home Ain't Here, Captain 98

My Jane 144

My Man Am a Slap-stick Man 156

My Man He Got in Trouble 81

Never Turn Back 107

No Coon But You .183

No More 108

Nothin' to Keep 115

O Buckeye Rabbit 110

O Captain, Captain 94

O Lawd, Mamie 91

Oh, de Gospel Train's A-comin' 202

Occupied 164

Ol' Black Mariah 87

On de Road Somewhere 155

On My Las' Go-'round 128

Out in de Cabin 131

Outran Dat Cop 67

Pharaoh's Army Got Drownded 190

Pity Po' Boy 38

Please, Mr. Conductor 44

Po' Homeless Boy 43

Po Little Girl Grievin' 41

Po' Nigger Got Nowhere to Go . 39

Prisoner's Song 83

Pull off Dem Shoes I Bought You 140

Pullman Porter 186

Rain or Shine 129

Raise a Rukus Tonight

a 173

b . 174

c 174

Reason I Stay on Job So Long 112

Reuben 66

Roscoe Bill 62

Save Me, Lawd 196

Section Boss 93

Shanghai Rooster 134

She's Got Another Daddy 151

Ship My Po' Body Home 37

Shoot, Good God, Shoot! 87

Shoot That Buffalo 123

Shootin' Bill 63

Shot My Pistol in the Heart o' Town 70

Since I Laid My Burden Down 201

Slim Jim From Dark-town Alley 64

Some o' Dese Days 139

Some o' These Days 202

Stewball Was a Racer 133

'Taint as Bad as I Said 75

Take Me Back Home 44

That Liar 168

That Ol' Letter 43

The Judge He Sentence Me 82

The Sanctified 195

This Ol' Hammer Ill

Throw Myself Down in de Sea 38

Travelin' Man 59

Trouble All My Days 40

Turn Yo' Damper Down 126

U-h, U-h, Lawdy 110

War Jubilee Song 169

Wash My Overhalls 126

'Way Up in the Mountain 104

We Are Climbin' Jacob's Ladder Ill

We Will Kneel 'Roun' de Altar 193

What Can the Matter Be? 160

What You Gonna Do? 195

When He Grin 69

When I Git Home 203

When I Lay My Burden Down 200

When I Wore My Ap'on Low 157

When I's Dead an' Gone 197

Who Built de Ark? 191

Whoa, Mule 179

Who's Goin' to Buy Your Whiskey? 129

Will I Git Back Home? 45

Woke up Wid My Back to the Wall ........ 84

Worried Anyhow 160

Wring Jing Had a Little Ding 175

Yonder Come de Devil 130

You Calls Me in de Mornin' 129

You Mus' Shroud My Body 199

You Take de Stockin', I Take de Sock 140

You Take de Yaller, I Take de Black 146