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Author:

Wheeler, Mary, 1892- comp.

Title:

Steamboatin' days, folk songs of the river packet era [by] Mary Wheeler.

Publisher:

Louisiana state university press,

Copyright Date:

1944

Description:

x, 121 p. illus., music. 27 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Music.

Notes:

Melodies unaccompanied.

Contents:

You talk about yo' greenbacks. I'm wukin' my way back home.-- Ida Red.-- Oh, when I git my new house done.-- Stavin chain.-- Po' shine.-- Katie an' the Jim Lee had a little race.-- She leaves Memphis.-- Vicksburg 'round the bend.-- Duke see the tie pile.-- Skinner, Skinner, you know the rule.-- Master had a bran new coat.-- God dawg my lousy soul.-- I'm the man that kin raise so long.-- Carryin' sacks.-- I'm goin' down the rivuh befo' long.-- I'm goin' up the rivuh.-- I wuz borned on the rivuh.-- Oh, Annie, oh!.-- Down the rivuh, down, boys.-- B'y' Sara burned down.-- The gold dust fire.-- John Gilbert.-- The Joe Fowler blues.-- I'm goin' down the rivuh.-- Golden City.-- Ferd Herold blues.-- I'm Alabama bound.-- Katie an' the Jim Lee had a race.-- I am waitn' on the levee.-- Soundings (The song of the leadsman).-- I come up out uv Egypt.-- Red Sea.-- Gabriel's trumpet.-- Jesus nevuh come in the mornin'.-- This ole worl' ain't goin' to stan' much longer.-- Is yo' lamps gone out?.-- Where wuz you las' night?.-- Ain't got no place to lay my head.-- Ohio Rivuh, she's so deep an' wide.-- Uphead an' scatter, boys.-- Alberta, let yo' hair hang low.-- Come on, my Pink, an' tell me what you think.-- Careless love.-- Come, love, come, the boat lies low.-- Rowdy soul.-- Uncle Bud.-- Take yo' time.-- Stacker Lee, no.1.-- Stacker Lee, no.2.-- Stacker Lee, no.3.-- Been all aroun' the whole roun' world'.-- Early in the mornin'.-- Devil.-- Late one night.-- Beefsteak when I'm hongry.-- Big boat's up the rivuh.-- I'm goin' down the rivuh, baby.-- I'm goin' to ship on the Mike Davis.-- The Kate Adams.-- The Macombrey Queen.-- My man's up the rivuh.-- On the banks uv the ole Tennessee.-- The po' ole slave.-- Woman, woman, I seen yo' man.-- You talk about yo' greenbacks.

LCCN:

45001486

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)