The wreck on the highway
By: performed by Dorsey Dixon
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drinking and traffic accidents; Songs and music; English Folk songs; Texts; English Ballads; Textile factories
Other titles: North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Work titles: Didn't hear nobody pray
Description: Ballad sung by North Carolina mill workers. Written and performed by Dorsey Dixon in 1937 under the title "Didn't hear nobody pray". The song was inspired by a serious wreck that occurred near Rockingham, NC. The song encourages the listener to give up drinking and driving.
Notes: Title from heading on HTML file (viewed Dec. 9, 2004).

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Duration: 3.09 min.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.

Text transcribed by Monique Prince. Text encoded by Elizabeth S. Wright.

Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and images (JPEG) and audio (MP3); 2 files : ca. 7 kilobytes, 2.9 megabytes.

Transcribed from: Southern Folklife Collection, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, call number FC-785. General Collection/Sound Recordings (#30001).

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.

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