Ms. Garrison recites the dialogue and diddles the tune. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Ms. Pace warns that the song, which has an AAAB structure, has "nigger language." Machine malfunctions two-thirds through the song, distorting and speeding up.