Manuscript/Mixed Material Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959
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Image 1 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 American Folklife Center Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection AFC 2004004 folder 020204 writings books Rainbow Sign transcripts Vera Hall Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 2 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 7 page 1 Her father her singing her religion about Rev Giles who preached himself to death V Well he used to tell us about My oldest sister she…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 3 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 7 page 2 My father used to just beg him to come down there and stay He wouldnt stay When he died he died all by himself livin up…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 4 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 7 page 4 Vera a good singer and things and he say All right sing me a song Sing something Sing anything Say I tell you a my baby…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 5 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 7 page 5 choir V Certainly did A Did they sing from books V They sung outa books The old Gospel Pearls our songbook was the first songbook I…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 6 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 7 page 6 A You say you didnt keep um in mind Vera V I didn Those songs we sung outa of those hymn books in the time I…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 7 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 7 page 7 specially learned a lot of singin from 650 V Well I I dont know whether I did or not and which I reckon I did too…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 8 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall page 8 reel 7 another feelin the people had or another part of the service How can you tell which songs to sing when Do you know what Im askin…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 9 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 7 page 9 Well thats the beginnin of the spirit in the church then They somebody get down to pray then you start just hummin along just heppin um…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 10 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 7 page 10 at a time like this V Well it doesnt sound so fitty in there It fits in revival you see SHE SINGS I couldn hear nobody…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 11 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 7 page 11 V After the prayer meetin was over Well they would sing something like this O Lawd shout for joy O Lawd shout for joy Put your…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 12 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall page3 reel 8 But they wouldnt be much noise kep while he was preachin A Well I8ve seen lots of times when a congregation would just burst into song in…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 13 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 8 page 4 A And sorta help with the spirit of the meeting And bring the other folks to the mourners bench V Thats right I used to go…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 14 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Reel 8 page 5 just about the time they say Thats all well stand And so Evbody stand gettin ready to dismiss maybe two or three will run offa that bench maybe…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 15 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 8 page 6 A When you saw her get happy well you got happy yourself V I sho did I was so happy because she had been goin there…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 16 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 8 page 7 V She realy did She didnt care what I said or what nobody said She wasnt ready and she didnt come I just believe she didnt…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 17 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 8 page 8 me to do and thats baptize this sister And so he did he baptized her helt his hand over her head and baptized her Say Im…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 18 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 8 page9 dont disturb them they just sitting up there like a knot on a logHERE HER VOICE IS ALMOST VINDICTIVE WITH SARCASM 800 just sumpin sittin there in…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 19 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 8 page 10 855 but she aint got a family Just she and her husband Now he aint go no religion at all and he dont pretend to have…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 20 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 8 page11 He still down therein Livingston but he never gets no appointment nowhere He preaches in the old house down there sometime A Whats the old house V…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 21 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 8 page 12 V He works on the railroad He makes pretty good money Hes been on the railroad I reckon about twenty five years I believe Hes been…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 22 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 8 page 13 think I ain haven heard nobody say that he drink I haven heard nobody say that he gambled But he just dribble it out some how…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 23 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 8 page 14 he believe in God He said Yes I believe in God What you ask me that for Well I just ask you Sho I believe in…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 24 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 9 page 1 Vera I been hearin Blind Lemon all my life up until he died A You think that Louis Jordan and Blind Lemon are better than Rich…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 25 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 9 page 2 kin to us was some of our people he stayed there so much And she said No hes not any of our people Hes just an…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 26 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 9 page 3 Cause I liked to hear him sing set up on his knee and watch him get up in his lap and sit down Um A They…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 27 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 9 page 4 me at all I was just tryin to do what I was aked to do And they said you meanx you didnt feel like dancin or…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 28 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 9 page 5 VA Just sing spirituals a hymn or something like that A But what about when you go down to the Rockolas in Tin Cup andplaces like…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 29 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall page 6 reel 9 My mother always told me that ligion never was desire to make your pleasure lessAnd so thats is my pleasure to hear and I likes it…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 30 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 9 page7 go and get it maybe a day or two before this partys comin off500 so we just I just close up our house and we just sit…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 31 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 9 page 8 V Ooo they sho would Thats right Turn us out of church Handle us about it But they dont know it And then lots of those…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 32 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 9 page 9 colored street and so thats where Id go where all the colored people was Just up there by myself then I wasN8t livin there with them…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 33 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 9 page 10 bad health she didnt get to back and I didnt so thism man Nels fellow he start writin to me So he wrote me bout a…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 34 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 9 page 11 finally I told um that he would They didnt know him They had to carry me wid um to town town so I would know him…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 35 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 9 page 12 one time and been married on the nex sight He dont have to court her no four five years he get an oold lady near bout…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 36 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 9 10 page 13 it cause she was worryin over it told her not to worry about it that Said he wasnt marryin me for dressin bein dressed nice…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 37 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 10 9 page 14 she practically held me in her lap all the way Papa didnt pay any tention He sit across the train from us He said Not…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 38 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 10 9 page 15 nearly bout two week High apologetic giggle A Cause you were too young V I was He saw Iwas too A That was awful kind…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 39 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 10 9 page 16 must he come down the weekend and git me And I told him No I want to stay another week He say All right say…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
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Image 40 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959 Vera Hall reel 10 9 page 17 weeks I stayed at home two weeks A By then you were anxious to go I guess V Well I got a letter from him…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1959-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Rainbow Sign, 1959
Names
- Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Collector)
- Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Author)
Created / Published
- 1959
Headings
- - Books
- - Transcripts
- - writings
- - interviews
- - United States
Genre
- Transcripts
- writings
- interviews
Notes
- - Vera Hall interview transcriptions; see also "The Land Where the Blues Began"
Medium
- Manuscripts 8.5 x 14 in or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
- AFC 2004/004: MS 02.02.04
Source Collection
- Alan Lomax collection (AFC 2004/004)
Repository
- American Folklife Center
Online Format
- online text
- image