Negro prison camp work songs
Series: Ethnic folkways library; Ethnic Folkways library
Publisher: Folkways Records
Published: 1956
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording]
Subjects: Work songs; African Americans; Music
Notes: Program notes by Peter Seeger (7 p.) inserted in container include song texts.

Recorded in Feb. 1951, by Toshi and Peter Seeger, John Lomax Jr., and others, at Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas.  The original tapes were deposited in the Folklore Archives of the Library of Congress.
Table of contents: title: Let your hammer ring.; title: Here, Rattler, here.; title: Chopping in the new ground.; title: Mighty bright light.; title: Go down, old Hannah.; title: Grizzly bear.; title: Lost John.; title: You got to hurry.; title: I need more power.; title: We need another witness.