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Me and my captain : (chain gangs) : Negro songs of protest / from the collection of Lawrence Gellert ; arranged for voice and piano by Lan Adomian.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection M1495 .A64 Box 1, Folder 23
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Music.
- African Americans.
- Protest songs--United States.
- Protest songs.
- United States.
- Songs with piano.
- Genre:
- Songs with piano.
- Songs.
- Music.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (31 pages) ; 26 cm
- Contained In:
- Marian Anderson Collection of Printed Music.
- Other Title:
- Chain gangs.
- Chain gang.
- Negro songs of protest.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Hours Press, [1939]
- Contents:
- Me and my captain
- Bossman Sammie
- Work ox
- Atlanta town
- I'm so deep in trouble
- Two hoboes
- Captain don't you think
- Early in the morning
- Old Lake Flood
- Told my captain
- Look over yonder
- I want no ruckus
- Working on the levee
- Steel got to be drove
- Squirrel on the log
- Corn pone
- Well on a Monday
- Forty leben days
- Nine foot shovel
- Captain did you hear 'bout
- I'm going home
- I hear danger singing
- Death is in this land
- No breakfast.
- Notes:
- Vol. 2 of Negro songs of protest (Cf. p. [2] of cover). A previous collection was published under title Negro songs of protest (New York, American Music League, 1936)
- Subtitle on cover: Chain gang.
- OCLC:
- 63661212
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