Research Catalog

Title

Wake up dead man : hard labor and Southern blues / collected and edited by Bruce Jackson ; with a new preface.

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Jackson, Bruce, 1936-

Description

xxvi p., 326 p. of music : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• African American prisoners > Texas > Songs and music
• Prisoners' songs > Texas

Note

• "Brown Thrasher Books."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-319), discography (p. 319-320), and index.

Contents

• One Lost Valley: the singers on their songs -- The Texas convict worksong tradition -- Cotton and cane: solo songs: Three Moore brothers (Mr. Tom Moore) -- Poor boy (Cold penitentiary blues; Poor boy number two) -- I can buckel a wheeler (I worked Old Moll) -- Yon' come Roberta -- Butt-cut ruler -- Should a been on the river in 1910 -- Robert -- Make a longtime man feel bad -- If you see my mohter -- 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, goobye -- Pick a bale of cotton -- Stewball -- Go down Old Hannah -- Shorty George -- Sure make a man feel bad -- Old Aunt Dinah -- Jolly -- No more can 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 hammger 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 (Godamight knows) -- Flattweeding 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.

Call Number

JME 01-619

ISBN

0820321583

LCCN

00698427

OCLC

• 43583575
• NYPG04-C0

Title

Wake up dead man : hard labor and Southern blues / collected and edited by Bruce Jackson ; with a new preface.

Imprint

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1999.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-319), discography (p. 319-320), and index.

Added Author

Jackson, Bruce, 1936-

Research Call Number

JME 01-619