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Negro workaday songs

Chapter 21: INDEX TO SONGS
By Howard Washington Odum
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A sociological and musical study gathers work songs collected from Black laborers in the American South and presents them as evidence of everyday life and expression. The collection catalogs and transcribes blues, road and jamboree tunes, bad-man ballads, jail and chain‑gang pieces, construction and camp songs, male and female love songs, religious numbers, and extended workingman epics, accompanied by musical notations and phono‑photographic records. The authors supply social context and analysis, favoring spontaneous, semi‑folk variants over polished anthology pieces, and organize typologies and melodies to highlight labor relations, communal rhythms, vocal style, and the functional role of song in work and movement.

INDEX TO SONGS

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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 Red 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
I Don’t Want No Trouble Wid de Walker 113
I Don’t Want No Cornbread 114
I Don’t Want You All to Grieve After Me 197
I Got a Gal an’ I Can’t Git Her 147
I Got a Letter, Captain 82
I Got a Letter From My Man 158
I Got a Muley 120
I Got Another Daddy 165
I Got Chickens on My Back 128
I Got My Man 150
I Love Jesus 195
I Never Will Turn Back 200
I Rather Be in My Grave 38
I Steal Dat Corn 68
I Tol’ My Cap’n That My Feet Was Col’ 102
I Wants to Go to Heaven 203
I Went to de Jail House 79
I Went to See My Gal 147
I Wish I Was Dead 39
I 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 111
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 111
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