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

Description

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

Subject

• Prisoners' songs > Texas
• African American prisoners > Texas > Music

Genre/Form

• Blues (Music)
• Songs
• Songs and music
• Blues.

Note

• "Brown Thrasher Books."

Bibliography (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Alberta -- As I set down to play tin can -- Been on the chain gang -- Believe I'll call the rider -- 'Berta -- Black Betty -- Black gal -- Butt cut ruler -- Captain don't feel sorry for a longtime man -- Chain gang blues -- Choppin' Charlie -- Choppin' in the new ground -- Cold penitentiary blues -- Cotton field song -- Crooked-foot John -- Crossing the river -- Delia -- Don't you hear my hammer ring -- Down the line -- Drinkin' of the wine -- Drinkin' that wine -- Drop 'em down -- Drop 'em down together -- Early in the morning -- Easy rider -- Ever since I been a man full grown -- Fallin' down -- Fall tree -- Forty-four hammers -- Godalmighty -- Godalmighty drag -- Go down, old Hannah -- Goodbye, my lover, goodbye -- Great Goda'mighty -- Grey goose -- Grizzly bear -- Haming on a live oak log -- Hammer ring -- The hammer song -- I can buckle a wheeler -- If you see my mother -- I got a record -- I got the crane wing -- I heard the reports of a pistol -- I'm going to Leland -- I'm in the bottom -- I'm so glad my time have come -- I need another witness -- I shall not be moved -- I was down in the bottom -- Jesus done bless my soul -- Jody -- Jody calls -- Jody's got my wife and gone -- Jody's got your girl and gone -- Jody's song -- Joe the grinder -- John Henry -- Johnny won't you ramble -- Jolly -- Julie -- Jumpin' Judy -- Let the hammer ring -- Levee camp holler -- Levee camp moan -- Long gone -- Long hot summer days.
• (Cont.) The Lord's prayer -- Lost John -- Mack's blues -- The major special -- Make a longtime man feel bad -- Midnight special -- Move along 'gator -- The murder's home -- My LOrd says there's room enough in heaven for us all -- Nashville blues -- No more cane on the Brazos -- No more good time in the world for me -- No payday here -- Old Alabama -- Old Aunt Dinah -- Old dollar Mamie -- Old riley -- One mo' rounder gone -- On my way to Mexico -- Pick a bale a cotton -- Please have mercy on a longtime man -- Plumb the line -- Poor boy -- Poor boy number two -- Preachin' in the wilderness -- Pull-do -- Raise 'em up higher -- Ration blues -- Rattler -- Ride on conquering King -- Roberta -- Shake it, Mister Gator -- Shorty George -- Should a been on the river in 1910 -- Skewball -- So soon this evening -- Sound off -- Spike driver blues -- Stagolee -- Stewball -- Sugarland Mary -- Sure make a man feel bad -- Take this hammer -- Tampa -- Tamp 'em up solid -- Ten Broek and Mollie -- Texarkana Mary -- Third degree -- This old hammer killed John Henry -- This old tree -- Three Moore brothers -- Timber gettin' limber -- Too much time for the crime I done -- Twenty-one hammers -- Twenty-two twenty -- Walk straight -- Woman trouble -- Wonder what's the matter -- Yellow gal -- Yon' come Roberta -- You got to hurry.

ISBN

0820321583

LCCN

^^^00698427^

OCLC

• 43583575
• SCSB-10114881

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library