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AIN'T WORKIN' SONG
d'b. No. 1336. Charley Campbell, Alabama State Docks, Mobile, Ala., 1937.
On the docks, at Mobile, Alabama, a collector of folk songs has just recorded a song by a Negro longshoreman, Charley Campbell. Collector: Was that a work song that you've just sung? Charley: Boss, this here ain't no workin" song; it's a ain't workin' song! |
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1 Eighteen hundred and ninety-one, 'Fore I workses, I'd ruther be hung.
2 Eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
Me an' old worksy, we done been through.
3 Eighteen hundred and ninety-three, Me and old worksy, we can't agree.
4 Eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
I lef old worksy standin' at de workhouse door.
5 Eighteen hundred and ninety-five, 'Fore I workses, I be bad lie.
6 Eighteen hundred and ninety-six,
Me an' old worksies, we business out of fix.
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