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2 Well, de toe bone jump to de foot bone. And de foot bone jump to de ankle bone. And de ankle bone jump to de leg bone.
3 Well, de leg bone jump to de knee bone, And de knee bone jump to de thigh bone, And de thigh bone jump to de hip bone.
4 Well, de hip bone jump to de back bone, And de back bone jump to de neck bone, And de neck bone jump to de head bone.
5 Well, de finger bone jump to de hand bone. And de hand bone jump to de wrist bone, And de wrist bone jump to de arm bone.
6 Well, de arm bone jump to de elbone, And de elbone jump to de muscle bone,
And de muscle bone jump to de shoulder bone.
7 Well, de shoulder bone jump to de back bone, And de back bone jump to de neck bone, And de neck bone jump to de head bone.
8 Dem bones, dem bones, dem jee-umpin? bones, (3) |
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THE BLOOD-STRAINED BANDERS *
/#. No. 744. Ace. on guitar and sung by Jimmie Strothers. Virginia State Prison Farms, 1936. Recorded by Dr. Harold Spivacke. See Fe, p. 38.
The itinerant street singer has been an important factor in the life of the Negro spiritual. Usually blind, piloted by his wife or by some little boy, he inches along through the streets and down the alleys of Negro working-class neighborhoods, shouting and groaning out a spiritual in his hoarse, twelve-hour-a-day voice, reminding saints and sinners that the blind must eat. The comrade of his dark, slow journeys is the battered guitar he plays.
* Blood-stained bandits—probably. |
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