Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia

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Contents Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Transcriber's Comments xv Goin' to Georgia THE ELLER FAMILY ANDRossBROWN: Music MAKERS OF TOWNS COUNTY 1 Coin' to Georgia / The Little Ship / My Home's in Charlotte, North Carolina / Cindy in the Summertime / Don't Go Ridin' Down That Old Texas Trail / What You Gonna Name That Pretty Baby? / Ellen Smith / Dance All Night with a Bottle in Your Hand / Snowbird My Number Will Be Changed Doc ANDLUCY BARNES, FAMILY ANDFRIENDS, ANDTHE LIVING SPIRITUAL INATHENS 23 Walk with Me / Dead and Gone / My Number Will Be Changed / Soon, One Mornin' / Walk Together, Little Children / Brother, You Oughtta Been There / Alone and Motherless / Little Sally Walker / We're Marching Round the Level / Free, GoLily Farewell, Sweet Jane MAUDE THACKER, BALLAD SINGER OFTATE 55 The Famous Wedding / Betsy / Lord Thomas / King William, Duke Shambo / Sweet Jane /1 Am a Poor Wayfaring Pilgrim / Once I Had an Old Grey Mare / Barbara Allen I Used to Do Some Frolickin' JAKE STAGGERS, BLACK BANJO-PICKER OF TOCCOA 73 Seventy-four / Garfield / Sally Ann / How Long the Train Been Gone? / Up the Oak, Down the Pine Down Yonder THE TANNERS OF DACULA, SMOKY JOE MILLER, UNCLE JOHN PATTERSON: SKILLET LICKER MusicOF THE PIEDMONT 87 Hand Me Down My Walking Cane / Goodbye, Little Bonnie, Blue Eyes / Three Nights' Experience / The Lonesome Hungry Hash House / Stagolee Was a Bully / Arkansas Traveler /1 Wish I'd Bought a Half a Pint and Stayed in the Wagon Yard / Prettiest Little Girl in the County / Down Yonder Contents v Let's March Around the Wall MR. HGT ANDDoc BARNES: THE LASTOF THE OLDWORK SONGS 113 Let's March Around the Wall / My Captain Paid Me Forty-one Dollars and a Quarter / Hamma-Tamma Damma-Ramma / Old John Henry Died on the Mountain / Track Lining Shout, Lulu W. GUY BRUCE OFSCREAMERSVILLE 125 Greenback / The Lily of the West / As I Walked Out One Morning in Spring / Shady Grove / Shout, Lulu / The Rovin' Gambler I Don't Know How We Made It Over THE BROWN'S CHAPEL CHOIR OF BISHOP 143 I Don't Know How We Made It Over / No Room at the Hotel / Welcome Home I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground CHESLEY CHANCEY, GEORGE CHILDERS, AND MABEL CAWTHORN: BANJO PICKING ANDFAMILY STRING BANDS 157 I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground / Shoot the Turkey Buzzard I Mulberry Gap / Poor Ex-Soldier / Five Hundred Miles / Slippin' and A-Slidin' with My New Shoes On / Coin' Down This Road Feelin' Bad / The Dying Girl Leavin' Here, Don't Know Where I'm Goin' NEAL PATTMAN, CLIFF SHEATS, WILLIE HILL, JOE RAKESTRAW: BLUESMEN ANDSONGSTERS OF THE PIEDMONT 179 John Henry / Low-Down Blues / Long-Legged Lula's Back in Town / Railroad Bill I / Jesse James / I'm Coin' Back to Good 01' Birmingham / Railroad Bill II / Leavin' Here, Don't Know Where I'm Goin' / Market Street Blues He Could Fiddle His Way Out of Jail RAY KNIGHT OF DAHLONEGA 205 Dawsonville Jail / Sally Goodin / Do 'Round My Lindy / Gold Strike / Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane /1 Got a Woman on Sourwood Mountain Man of Visions PREACHER HOWARD FINSTER OF PENNVILLE 217 Some Have Fathers Over Yonder / Five to My Five / Little Mary Phagan / Just a Little Tack in the Shingle of Your Roof Bibliography 235 A North Georgia Discography 237 Index of Titles and First Lines of Songs 239 vi Contents ...