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Our Singing Country
GEORGIA LAND
d. No. 729. Jim Owens, State Penitentiary, Richmond, Va., 1936. See PTFLS, No. 5, p. 1785 "Old Joe Clark," L0.2, p. 2775 Bot, pp. 269 if. ; also "Liza Jane," and related songs.
This song is what is known as a sinful reel. In the cool of the evening when a man has nearly finished his plowing, or late Saturday night rattling home from town with a jug under the wagon seat and the lines tied to the handbrake—these are occasions for "Georgia Land." We have heard it all over the South on the lips of rural Negroes, but the stanza which we still like best is the following:
Last year was a very fine year} For termaters and pertaters. Papa didny raise no beans an* greens} But> Lawd God) the }taters!