| Portion of title |
Historic Negro spirituals and work songs from West Virginia. |
| Variant title |
Work and pray. |
| Contents |
Lining track (Clarence Harmon) -- Lining track ; Laying steel ; Ten pound hammer (Albert McCoy) -- Steal away ; Shout yo' double shout (Memphis T. Garrison) -- I didn't know I had to pray so hard (Blanche Simmons) -- Jacob's ladder ; Palms of victory ; Way over in the Promised Land ; Drinking of the wine (Waldo Dickason) -- John Henry (Susan White) -- This old hammer ; Section boss (Nelson Harmon) -- This old hammer (P.R. Higginbotham) -- Railroad graders ; Ride to Heaven ; Away in the Kingdom ; We're baptized in the water ; When the roll is called (Henry L. Dickason) -- Won't you go with me ; Go home to my Father and be saved (John Wade) -- Good old chariot (Mrs. John Wade) -- Lord I don't want to die in the storm (Frank Wade) -- Ride on, Jesus ; Rock me chariot ; Lord I won't stop praying (R.L. Pollard) -- Prepare me, O Lord (unknown) -- God got his eyes on you (Bell Edward Pate) -- John the Revelator ; Lining track (Joe Perkins) -- Lining track ; I wish I had-a heard them (Charles L. Holland) -- (Narration) ; In that morning ; Some bright day (Esther Johnson) -- Shoeshine boy ; We are traveling to the grave (unknown). |
| General note | African American spirituals, work songs, and ballads. |
| General note | West Virginia University Press : WVU Press SA-4 (on label); WVU Press Sound Archive 4 (on container). |
| General note | Compact disc. |
| General note | Program notes by Joseph Bundy ([23] p. : ill.) inserted in container. |
| Performer |
Various performers. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Field recordings, made ca. 1949-1953 in rural West Virginia by Cortez D. Reece, from the West Virginia and Regional History Collection of West Virginia University Libraries. |
| UPC |
032511176523 |
| Publisher number | SA-4 West Virginia University Press |
