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JOHNNY, WON'T YOU RAMBLE?
G, g. No. 190. Lightning and a group of convicts, Darrington State Farm, Texas, 1934.
Said by Texas convicts to be one of the oldest songs on the Colorado River, this song seems to have had its origin in the days of slavery. It shows that the Negroes looked neither at slavery nor at their masters through rose-colored glasses.
Moderately fast J =63
i Well, I went down in Hell-town To see the Devil chain down, Johnny, won't you ramble? Hoe, hoe, hoe.
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