Our Singing Country
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OX-DRIVING SONG
d>. No. 2648. Herman R. Weaver, Merryville, La., 1939. See Be, p. 300.
^ The contrast between this quietly bloodthirsty song and the others in this section typifies the contrast between Northern and Southern folk music as a whole. It has a quality of dark brooding imagination that can be found nowhere in the candidly cheerful or blatantly doleful songs of the Northern pioneer. Mr. Herman Weaver of Merryville, Louisiana, says:
aI am enclosing farts of the Ox-Driving Song as remembered by me} but it is still very incomplete. My sister thinks the town of Saludio is in Missouri or Kentuckyy probably where it originated [the song). My father knew ity I thinks when he came to Texas in 18$$" |
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1 I pop my whip, I bring the blood, I make my leaders take the mud, We grab the wheels and turn them round, One long, long pull, we're on hard ground. |
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2 On the fourteenth day of October-o, I hitched my team in order-o, To drive the hills of Salud-i~o, To my rol, to my rol, to my rideo.
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