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Prison worksongs.
Streaming audio Available online
View online- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- Music online: American song.
- Music online: American song
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blues (Music)--Louisiana--1951-1960.
- Blues (Music).
- Prisoners' songs.
- Work songs.
- Louisiana.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- El Cerrito, CA : Arhoolie, 1997.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Contents:
- Berta
- Take this hammer
- Stewball
- Five long years for one man
- Alberta let your bangs grow long
- I had five long years
- Early in the mornin'
- All teamed up in Angola's mule lot
- I got a hurtin' in my right side
- Let your hammer ring
- Cleaning this highway
- John Henry
- Something within me
- Jesus cares
- Working on the levee, part 1
- Working on the levee, part 2
- Pickin' cotton all day long
- My mule "Grey".
- Notes:
- Originally issued as compact disc.
- Program notes by Harry Oster and lyrics ([23] p.) inserted.
- Tracks 1-14 originally issued as Folklyric LP A-5 ; tracks 15-19 previously unreleased.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (American song). Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- CD-448
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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