Our Singing Country

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	Our Singing Country
	ROUSTABOUT HOLLER c. No. 2658. Henry Truvillion, Newton, Texas, 1939. Chanting: Now boys, we're on the steamer Natchez, And we got to load this here cotton and cottonseed here Before anybody can shut his eyes like he's asleep; So we might just as well tear around Get us a gobo apiece. Let's go on and load this stuff, what do you say? We're up here and got it to do. Where you at there, you old nub-fingered nappy? Let's hear from you, blow your horn, let's load some cotton.
	* This is the tune of stanza 1. Most of the remaining stanzas can be fitted to it with slight altera, tions; several must be sung as free variants on the basic pattern. 1 Oh-h-h-h, Po? roustabout don't have no home, Makes his livin5 on his shoulder bone.
	2 Oh-h-h-h, Wake up, sleepy, and tell your dream, I want to make you acquainted with the two blue seams.
	3 Oh-h-h-h, Midnight was my cry, 'fo' day was my creep, I got a pretty little girl in big New Orleans, lives on Perdida Street. * Sacks of cottonseed had two blue stripes running from bottom to top. [350]