Contents |
Freewillum -- Rockah mh moomba -- I wok om a mo-na -- Byum by-e -- Ha'k 'E angels -- Until I die -- Where was Peter -- Plumb de line -- Down to de mire -- Eli ah can't stan' -- Moonlight-starlight -- Knee-bone -- Oh Eve--where is Adam? -- Blow Gabriel -- My soul rock on jubilee -- Good-bye everybody -- Emma you my darlin' -- Go roun' the border Susie -- Sangaree -- It's cold frosty mornin' -- Pretty green shawl -- Four and twenty lawyers -- Shout Josephine shout -- The buzzard lope--a solo dance -- Throw me anywhere -- Gimme him -- Stickit ball a hack -- Ham bone ham bone -- Juba dis an' juba dat -- Ball the jack -- Fiddle songs--fragments -- Bild dem cabbage down -- Way down in the old Peedee -- Johnny come a long time -- I jing-a-ling -- Believer I know -- Norah, hist the windah -- That suits me -- Wasn' that a wonder -- I heard the angels singin' -- Can't hide sinner -- John, John -- When I rise cryin' holy -- No hidin' place -- Livin' humble -- Swing low sweet chariot -- When my lord calls me I must go -- Zion -- My god is a rock in a weary land -- The bell done ring -- An' he never said a mumblin' word -- May be the las' time I don't know -- One-a these days -- Baptism -- Wade in nuh watuh childun -- Sabbath has no end -- Settin'-up -- In that old field -- Jesus gon tuh make up my dyin' bed -- O de robe -- Ride on conquering king -- Aye lord, time is drawin' nigh -- Nummer me one -- For I ain' goin' t' die no mo' -- Buryin' -- In some lonesome graveyard - I got to lay in yonder graveyard -- Shanties -- Call me hangin' Johnny -- Knock a man down -- Sandy Anna -- Pay me my money down -- Debt I owe -- Ragged leevy -- Good-bye my Riley O -- Old tar river -- Shilo Brown -- This time another year -- Haul away, I'm a rollin' king -- Sundown below -- My soul be at res' -- Anniebelle -- Rice songs -- Do remember -- Peas an' the rise -- Hard time in old Virginny -- A.B.A.B.A. -- I gwine t' beat dis rice -- Rowing songs -- Oh when I come to die -- Five fingers in the boll -- Drinkin' of the wine -- When I'm gone to come no mo'. |
General note | For solo voice or various combinations of voices, principally unacc. |
General note | Reprint. Originally published: Creative Age Press, c1942. |
General note | "Brown Thrasher books." |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-256) and background material. |
LCCN | 91022948 |
ISBN | 0820313971 (alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0820313890 (pbk. : alk. paper) |