"Negro Workaday Songs" by Howard Odum and Guy Johnson- 1926
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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