Rolling along in song
Subtitle: a chronological survey of American Negro music
By: with eighty-seven arrangements of Negro songs, including ring shouts, spirituals, work songs, plantation ballads, chain-gang, jail-house, and minstrel songs, street cries, and blues, edited and arranged by J. Rosamond Johnson
Publisher: Viking press
Published: 1937
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: African Americans -- Music; Songs, English -- United States
Table of contents: value: Sit down, sister, sit down; value: Oh, I want two wings; value: See can't you jump for joy; value: I been in de storm, so long; value: Dese bones am gwineter rise again; value: I mourned in de valley; value: Hush, somebody callin' my name; value: Get right, stay right; value: De angels lookin' at me; value: King Jesus is a-lis'enin'; value: I'm lookin' for my Jesus (Can't stay away); value: Oh, rock-a my soul; value: O Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn; value: Run, to my Lord; value: De church bell tollin', ding, dong; value: Many thousan' gone; value: When I'm dead, don't you grieve after me; value: I'm trampin' (Tryin' to make heab'n my home); value: Go down in de lonesome Valley; value: Somebody got lost in de storm; value: Han' me down yo' silver trumpet, Gabriel; value: Now let me fly; value: Peter on de sea, sea, sea, sea; value: Call dat religion? No, no, no; value: No, no, no!; value: Oh, you bettah mind!; value: Run to de city of Refuge; value: Who built de ark?; value: A hund'ed lit'l angels in the ban'; value: Go, tell it on de mountain; value: I jes' come from de fountain; value: I'll be ready when de great day come; value: Hallelujah to de Lam'; value: The old cabin home; value: Rosa Lee; value: Darling Nelly Gray; value: Listen to the mockin' bird; value: Carry me back to Old Virginny; value: My old Kentucky home; value: Old folks at home (Way down upon the Swanee River); value: In the evenin' by the moonlight; value: Take yo' time, Miss Lucy; value: Monkey married the baboon's sister; value: Ring, ring de banjo; value: Turkey in the straw; value: Shoo, fly, don't bother me; value: Chicken reel; value: I been workin' on de levee; value: Carve dat 'possum; value: Jump Jim Crow; value: Oh, dem golden slippers!; value: A-way down south in Dixie; value: Oh, Susanna!; value: Short'nin' bread; value: De camptown races; value: Po' boy; value: Yonder comes the high sheriff; value: Bird in a cage; value: Been in de pen so long; value: Seven long years in state prison; value: The midnight special; value: He's a-choppin' in de new groun'; value: John Henry; value: Casey Jones; value: Drivin' steel (Hammer Man Song); value: Don't let yo' watch run down; value: Florida Cakewalk (instrumental); value: Watermelons; value: Sweet Oranges; value: Chimney Sweeper; value: Blueberries; value: The broom man; value: My baby's in Memphis, layin' aroun'; Stagolee; Stagolee done kill de bully; Honey, take one on me; Satisfied; value: Them lonesome moanin' blues; value: De chain gang (an original musical episode based on traditional Negro idioms):  Gwine down dat lonesome road; Water me from de lime rock; Workin' on de chain gang; One mo' mile to go; Rainbow roun' my shoulder; You gotta bus' dis rock; Back to de jail; Dis am de hammer; value: Exerpts from George Gershwin's American opera, Porgy and Bess; value: Negro Love Song (Li'l Gal)