Marrowbone Itch

Title

Marrowbone Itch

Digital Object

Performer

Brock, Mike
Collett, J.F. (Farmer)

Date Recorded

1937-09-26

AFS Number

1427B1

AFC Collection

AFC 1937/001

AFC Catalog Record

Genre

topical song
comic song

Instrumentation

vocal
guitar

Setting

At the home of John Sizemore

State

Kentucky

County

Leslie

Town

Marrowbone Creek
Gardner

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.)  

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.

Citation

“Marrowbone Itch,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 26, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/602.