Our Singing Country

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	Outlaws
	5  Jack o5 Diamonds made me cry, Say, I'm gonna gamble till I die, Jack o5 Diamonds is a hard card to play. 6  Well, I begin to play in the fall, Kep? me wearin' my blue overalls, Jack o? Diamonds is a hard card to play. Chorus: Oh, li'l' Alice, oh, li'P Alice, Oh, li'P Alice, keep yoJ hole in the wall. STAVIN' CHAIN e. No. 210. Ace. on guitar and sung by Tricky Sam, Huntsville, Texas, 1934. See PTFLS, No. 5, p. 179. Purported to be a Virginia rounder, Stavin' Chain has been heard from all over the South—a sort of sexy Paul Bunyan. It is worth noting in this con­nection that we have encountered a number of guitar players nicknamed Stavin' Chain—Little Stavin' Chain, Big Stavin' Chain, etc.—none of whom could or would tell us what his nickname meant. Guitar players, however, have the reputation of being midnight creepers. This version, sung and censored for us by Tricky Sam of Huntsville, Texas, has been approved by various old-time barroom musicians as an authentic piece of early ragtime of the sort that some might call "a black­guard song."