Identified on AFS card as "The Hard-Working Miner." A song by that name - same tune but different text - was collected by George Korson for the LOC in Braeholm, W.Va. and in Harlan, in 1940.
Originally:
Lomax, John A. and Lomax, Alan. American Ballads and Folk Songs. The MacMillan Company, 1934. (Includes songs collected from James (Blind Jim) Howard).
Currently:
Lomax, John A. and Lomax, Alan. American Ballads and Folk Songs. Dover Publications, 1994.
Announcement following by Jean Thomas (stating that Day/Setters, despite the fact that an operation had given him a little sight in one eye, composed this song when he was in fact blind).
Introduced by Thomas and Day^ the latter says he learned it in Carter County, where the creek flows. Title spelled on AFS card as "Tigert"^ Thomas drops the "s."
Preceded by announcement by Jean Thomas who identifies Walter Caldwell as Alice Williams' son-in-law^ James Williams as her son^ and Canas Williams as her husband.
Lomax gives Nicholson's age as 84. The AFS card gives the location as Laurel County, but Lomax announces on 1503B1 that Nicholson's home in Providence is in Clay Co. on the edge of Laurel.
The AFS card gives the location as Laurel County, but Lomax announces on 1503B1 that Nicholson's home in Providence is in Clay Co. on the edge of Laurel.
The AFS card gives the location as Laurel County, but Lomax announces on 1503B1 that Nicholson's home in Providence is in Clay Co. on the edge of Laurel.
AFS card notes first line: "Had a piece of pie, had a piece of puddin'." Card gives the location as Laurel County, but Lomax announces on 1503B1 that Nicholson's home in Providence is in Clay Co. on the edge of Laurel.
The AFS card gives the location as Laurel County, but Lomax announces on 1503B1 that Nicholson's home in Providence is in Clay Co. on the edge of Laurel.