Manuscript/Mixed Material Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942
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Image 1 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 American Folklife Center Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection AFC 2004004 folder 070208 field work United States 1941 Coahoma County Mississippi Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 2 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 COMPOSITION BOOK Property of Alan Lomax Address Library of Congress Washington DC Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 3 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 W H Mathews 725 Lincoln St Indianola Scott Bohana Big Creek Rt 6 Good guitarist rec by Son Simms 114 Sharkey Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 4 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Joe Williams July 22 1982 Born 1919 23 Married first time commonlaw wife Mary Glover younger lived with her a yr before a man shed been with before came down and asked…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 5 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 There was a 50 verse song about the grasshopper before the boll weevil right comical used to have a song about me If you be a skinner be sure that you can…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 6 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Last time he went to Chicago for Melrose Made 90 made 8 sides outside of expenses all you want to drink there On 63rd St met Lonnie Johnson Tampa Red Memphis Minnie…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 7 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 two single us or Man wife in one tent Single tents Nigger quarters Commissary tent kitchen 90 ft 56 6 or 800 ft Hdqs Tents for white help Daylight till dark The…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 8 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 If it wasnt this army business had me hemmed up Id be up the road Gary Chicago some them places rather be up there than up here Black Albert Leland five string…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 9 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Cow machines are not machine efficient for enlarging levees Mule wagons wd haul yd 14 Tractor 8 yds Must works now done with dragline loaders rubber type haulage Idaho Adroholt used an…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 10 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 June 23 Rev E M Martin was converted by the song Hide Me Over In the Rocks of Ages Another Let the Heaven Light Shine On Me Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 11 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 TS came in right after the Civil War and followed it all his life The business is a gamble weather time limit labor conditions Hasnt done any work since 35 prices got…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 12 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Toasts M C Orr Clarksdale Miss July 23 1943 When a lady gets ready to fuck She opens her legs and gaps her thighs She give her ass exricise Old Aunt Nielly…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 13 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Suggests el Chief Offenheiser has valuable hist material on early days C Idaho Aderholt July 29 Wheelbarrows were used only in swampy places labor would work by the Cubic Yd a good…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 14 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Johnson grass a monkeys ass Are very sad to see But a whiskey flask and a whores ass Gonna be the death of me Buds Asa Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 15 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 During high water Watchmen have to look for seep boils where the water under high pressure hits a weak strata underneath and boils up on the other side If seep boil is…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 16 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Born 1897 First blues 1910 Son Simms fiddler 45 Born Anguilla Miss Sharkey Co Learned to play from teacher by by listening to teachers by listening as they gave lessons in the…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 17 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Interview with Charley Idaho Handled niggers all my life and never crippled one yet a good record some of these foremen would beat em up just to act smart I didnt whip…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 18 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Born 1913 Muddy Waters 29 Head of the house Farms 16 acres Been knowing Son House since 29 Learned how to play with bottle neck from him by watching him for about…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 19 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Decca Jay McShan his orchestra Conqueror Preaching Elder Oscar Saunders Doesnt bother to listen to em much Has been playing since 1933 Son Simms was his teachers Didnt take long to learn…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 20 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Thirteen Highway Walter Davis Angel Blues ThirtyEight Pistol record Down South SB Williamson Sugar Mama Bluebird Blues Canary Bird Blues M M Barr Clover Blues No 1 Highway Ramblin Kid Rosalie Boots…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 21 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Louis Ford 57 heard the levee camp song first about 1908 when they were putting the new levee in near Friars Pt Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 22 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Some peoples loves whisky straight some like a toddy Gal can I go home with you Take me home sweet mama cause I aint got nobody Words for Pullin the Skiff little…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 23 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Ollie Jackson Hush girls boys dont u all say a word Im gon sing u a new song now That you havent never heard If you lose yo money Learn to lose…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 24 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Babe C he jumps started round the table O leveled that Colt of his shot Babe Ollie below his navel George Fountain said Boys thisll never do Curtis say you spoke too…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 25 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 â Geo F Bog Foot they bofe done all they could But if I had got 100 yrs woundnt done the boys no good Now G girls boys please take my advice…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 26 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Anne Wilhams brother John Cameron 66 Roustabout Goes back 50 years ago Come on nigger uid de such O no Hep me to make this landin Upon the hill Roustabout aint got…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 27 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 George Adams Farrell Miss July 29 1942 Frizzling shingles house a turmoil of torn beds floors rattling wife rheumatic big butt waddling over an huge oldfashioned stove Geo Adams sitting bent and…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 28 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 I had to shoot a woman one Sunday she was pullin another womans hair hittin her side of the head with a knife I said Quit hittin her Yeah I said I…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 29 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 wid him he paid him check mark I caught some niggers run off from a county farm Ive seed em when they got beat to death theyd killed 16 of em buried…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 30 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 tied up lik they varmints We went up town Im gon walk em t up to the courthouse want go put em in the jail sgt you go loose em if they…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 31 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 check mark meet in your life fool you out a this ton yard then beat you to death McM I remember one Sunday 2 or 3 had run away that night he…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 32 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 tied up like they varmints We went up town Im gon walk em up to the courthouse wanât go put em in the jail sgt you go loose em if they run…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 33 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 meet in your life fool you out of the tov yard then beat you to death McMI remember one Sunday 2 or 3 had run away that night he found em Sunday…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 34 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Used to be bad niggers run up an down the river when theyd get in theese camps tell me who they was Charley Moody was the bully of the Stream Al Warner…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 35 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Geo McM levee camp song Last Sunday mornin she was she was standin in the do Shoes stockins in her hand had no where to go Call for your whiskey pay before…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 36 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Pull the Skiff Jump for Joy Shoo Fly Little Girl Bobbie Mae Brown Squirrel in the Tree Pullin the Skiff Satisfy Sally Peep Pick a Susan Good old Man Sometime Sittin in…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 37 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Ol Dobney come with that ol carbeen I told him some of that gang over there Dabney I told ol Pat when we when off watch I told him oughta be careful…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 38 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 checkmark He lit out on his horse In an hour a half there was mo white folks niggers than a towboat could pull âWe knew olâ Windy Geo was in itâ I…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 39 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Nigger playin hard at a picnic throwin ice cream when he knew anything Jurdon put a 44 in his face I dont want to hurt you but gimme that gun Nigger said…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 40 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 I dont want no curiousness now Pretty g He had them white folks fallin round under the counters like blackbirds in a cornfield Com Store He didnt have nothin in there to…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942
Names
- Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Collector)
Created / Published
- 1941-1942
Headings
- - Fieldwork
- - field notes
- - United States
Genre
- field notes
Notes
- - 1942-06-22 through 07-30 "composition book";
Medium
- Manuscripts 8.5 x 14 in or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
- AFC 2004/004: MS 07.02.08
Source Collection
- Alan Lomax collection (AFC 2004/004)
Repository
- American Folklife Center
Online Format
- online text
- image