As I Sat Down To Play Tin Can
Title
As I Sat Down To Play Tin Can
Digital Object
Alternate Titles
Boston Burglar
Poor Boy
Po' Boy
Coon Can
Performer
Horne, Howard
Date Recorded
1937-10-19
AFS Number
1542B
AFC Collection
AFC 1937/001
AFC Catalog Record
Genre
lyric song
Instrumentation
vocal
State
Kentucky
County
Perry
Town
Hazard
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
“As I Sat Down To Play Tin Can,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed January 17, 2025, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/1020.