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 090433 field work Coahoma County Mississippi 19411942 transcripts Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 2 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 p1 David Edwards County Town Blues Oh you got theo wrong roll Just like a hunters hound hes lying right here on Lord if you cant roll Boy when you…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 3 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 2 DAVE EDWARDS say you have to roll like Hunters hound A Where did xxxxxx that come from E I guess I dont know where that come from That was…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 4 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 3 DAVE EDWARDS JELLY ROLL BLUES Jelly roll jelly roll Hanging on my mind It hypnotized my daddy And run my mamma blind I love my jelly I love my…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 5 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 4 DAVE EDWARDS E Well at that time he made sometimes 500 a year With When the war work was he got made most 1500 A What would he do…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 6 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 5 DAVE EDWARDS E Most about A Well did he ever join the church and quit music alltogeth er E Wel he joined the hurch and quit music but he…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 7 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 6 DAVE EDWARDS Hellitalsin Hear the hesitatin tune hear the hesitatin tune Hear the hesitatin tune why dont you hie along Hesitatin momma take it for the dollar down You…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 8 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 7 DAVID EDWARDS A Just played How did you learn to play Did you just play the same little part over or would you play the whole song E Iâd…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 9 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 8 DAVID EDWARDS A What kind of music did they have E Well they had a violin and sometimes something that had a rang to it Theyd Youd pat their…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 10 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 9 DAVID EDWARDS dances then A Did you have a good time E Good time yessir A Tell me about how it would go Remember anything that happened to you…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 11 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 10 DAVID EDWARDS E He was a little bouncer slim brown one skin fellow A Was he a good musician E He was good A What did he play E…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 12 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 11 DAVID EDWARDS What they know now is what they been recording like Mr Melrose up in Chicago sent for Hed get in tech with the good blues players hed…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 13 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 12 DAVID EDWARDS E Well Eddie and he would do nothing his mother work or Ham and worked for him near about of Lee he wouldnt didnt make any his…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 14 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 13 DAVE EDWARDS Arkansas Kentucky Tennessee Alabama different places Georgia Florida all the different states A What place do you like the best that you been North or South E…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 15 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 14 DAVID EDWARDS I made that myself along about about three weeks ago month A What did you call it E Well thats the Army Blues A What were you…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 16 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 4 1 DAVID EDWARDS TEAR IT DOWN If I catch you in my house again Put the kitty in my house And Im jus gonna tear it down Kit Kitty in…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 17 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 4 2 DAVID EDWARDS Fool him down JOHN AND HIS MULE Trying that day Jack had got tired on the road So John said Come up Jack Jack looked around at…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 18 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 4 3 DAVID EDWARDS A Howd you learn these E Well different people would tell em to me and Id learn em like that A Did you learn em from your…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 19 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 4 4 DAVID EDS liable not to been in that convention laughter A Did you ever hear about the time that Shorty Vine poor old colored man went down to the…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 20 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 M 51 L Dont you get the blues awful bad when youre just bumming around on the road E Blues man you sho does I get away from home sometimes one or…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 21 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 452 when I get to the crossroad may catch the M O to another place catch the MO it carries me on way catch the Frisco see change just like that just…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 22 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 4 5 2 V run into some place where you gone get a break see where you have the attitude to git hold of sumpin see L Ever hear any songs sung…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 23 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 4 5 3 in the jungle Guys have much fun in the jungle sometime wistfully I been on the jungle when they go up town git um some pigfoot git us a…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 24 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 454 that money fromThey got different ways to git dat see Some do different things to git their money Everyman dont do the same thing to git that money L Not everybodys…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 25 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 455 meet you on the road treat you better than your own color I run even will treat you my color Ive run up on some white guys thats better treatment than…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 26 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 4 6 David Edwards and something to eat you see Something like that Sometimes they just have a quarter in their pocket and when they get to where theyre going that…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 27 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 4 7 DAVID EDWARDS A You left something out E Thats right A Lets put it in E Theres some if get left out You carry it four or five different…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 28 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 4 8 DAIVD EDWARDS down and she walked right on to him She did They quit and he went and got some nurse from some other conjuror understand She didnt come…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 29 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 4 9 DAVE EDWARDS Some We have some long toasts and some short ones Thats a short un Thats what you tell the nogood women what its made for for the…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 30 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 4 10 DAVE EDWARDS When they put gas in the cell tripped the gallows and it fell it was a bale of hay and he was gone You see him today…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 31 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 4 11 DAVE EDWARDS ask him do he want a little bit of this He holler Yesm yes maam A Well when did the children do that Would they be hiding…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 32 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 4 12 A What did she tell you E She told me to come on laughter I wanted fun I wanted to know what we were going to do She showed…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 33 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 p 1 DAVID EDWARDS Oh you got the wrong hes lying right here on Boy when you can rough roll Get you into town Whoa you got the wrong Just…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 34 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 2 DAVE EDWARDS David Edward say you have to roll like Hunters hound A Where did that come from E I guess I dont know where that come from A…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 35 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 3 DAVE EDWARDS JELLY ROLL BLUES There was a roll Twas a high on my mind Gonna hypnotize my daddy to get Then my momma blind I love my jelly…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 36 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 4 DAVE EDWARDS E Well at that time sometimes 500 a year With the war work he got most 1500 A What would he do with it Find more music…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 37 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 5 DAVE EDWARDS A Well did he ever join the church and quit music alltogeth er E Wel he joined the hurch and quit music but he played my guitar…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 38 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 6 DAVE EDWARDS Hear the hesitatin tune hear the hesitatin tune Hear the hesitatin tune why dont you hie along Hesitatin momma take it for the dollar down You got…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 39 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 7 DAVID EDWARDS A Just played How did you learn to play Did you just play the same little part over or would you play the whole song E Id…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Image 40 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Fisk 3 8 DAVID EDWARDS A What kind of music did they have E Well they had a violin and sometimes something that had a rang to it A Well now after…- 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
- - Transcripts
- - United States
Genre
- Transcripts
Notes
- - David "Honeyboy" Edwards; used as source material for book project, The Land Where the Blues Began
Medium
- Manuscripts 8.5 x 14 in or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
- AFC 2004/004: MS 09.04.33
Source Collection
- Alan Lomax collection (AFC 2004/004)
Repository
- American Folklife Center
Online Format
- online text
- image