Uncle Hardy Lige Morgan's Hog Song
Title
Uncle Hardy Lige Morgan's Hog Song
Digital Object
Performer
Hoskins, Theophilus G.
Date Recorded
1937-10-14
AFS Number
1517A1
AFC Collection
AFC 1937/001
AFC Catalog Record
Editor Note
ID'd on AFS card as "Tom Morgan's hog song" but announced by Hoskins as "Uncle Hardy Lige Morgan's hog song." Learned when he was five years old
was 53 at time of recording.
Genre
comic song
topical song
ballad
Instrumentation
vocal
State
Kentucky
County
Leslie
Town
Hyden
Is Referenced by
Originally:
Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. The Macmillan Company, 1941.
(Includes transcriptions.)
Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. The Macmillan Company, 1941.
(Includes transcriptions.)
Currently as:
Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. Dover, 2000.
Collection
Citation
“Uncle Hardy Lige Morgan's Hog Song,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 24, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/900.