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Go To Sleep

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Provided to YouTube by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Go to Sleep · Michel LaRue Songs of the American Negro Slaves ℗ 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1960 Folkways Records Released on: 1960-01-01 Auto-generated by YouTube.

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CHORUS
I do love
Shortenin' bread,
I do love
Shortenin' bread,
Mama love
Shortenin' bread,
Papa love
Shortenin' bread,
Everybody love
Shortenin' bread,

1.
Two little babies layin in the bed,
One play sick an' the other play dead.
I do love
Shortenin' bread,
I do love
Shortenin' bread.

2.
Ever' since my dog been dead,
Hog's been rootin' my tater bed.

CHORUS

3.
Old Aunt Dinah sick in the bed,
Sent for the Doctor, Doctor said,
"All she need's some shortenin' bread."

CHORUS

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Roscoe, Lee & Abadie present Short'nin' Bread

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An antebellum plantation, or slave, song from the 1840s, or thereabouts. This is one of our favorite songs, and we perform this everywhere we can. It's one of a very few songs where we can add an instrument - whistling - without having to add another musician.

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It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad

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Negro Prison Songs/"It makes a long time man feel bad" & "Prison Blues"

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Chorus
Won't you ring, old hammer?
Hammer Ring.
Won't you ring, old hammer?
Hammer Ring.

Broke the handle on my hammer,
Hammer ring.
Broke the handle on my hammer,
Hammer ring.
Got to hammerin' in the Bible.
Gotta talk about Norah.
Well, God told Norah.
You is a-goin' in the timber.
You argue some Bible.
Well, Norah got worried
.What you want with the timber?Won't you build me a ark, sir?
Well, Norah asked God, sir.
How high do you want it?
Build it forty-two cubits
.Every cubit have a window.
Well, it started in to ranin'.
Old Norah got worried.
He called his children.
Well, Norah told God, sir.
This is a very fine hammer.
Got the same old hammer.
Got to hammerin' in the timber... |

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Won't you ring old hammer? Hammer, ring -davidhsuperstar-

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Oh, Miss Wright,
Why don't you ring that bell?
Oh, Miss Wright,
Why don't you ring that bell?
I can tell
The way those greens smell.

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Negro Work Songs and Calls Buy the album on which this track appears by going to www.document-records.com Document Records has the largest catalogue of vintage blues, gospel, jazz and old-time country music in the world

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Ooooh, the sun going down,
And I won't be here long,
Ooooh, the sun going down,
And I won't be here long.
Ooooh, then I be going home.
Ooooh, I can't let this dark cloud catch
me here.
Ooooh, I can't stay here long,
Ooooh, I be at home.

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Negro Work Songs and Calls Buy the album on which this track appears by going to www.document-records.com Document Records has the largest catalogue of vintage blues, gospel, jazz and old-time country music in the world

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Oh, etc.
I won't be here long.
Oh, etc.
Oh, dark gonna catch me here,
Dark gonna catch me here.
Oh, etc.

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That was Mary and Martha in the garden,
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Sister Mary took wings of the eagle,
Sailed away to Galilee,
Oh, Mary, may I go out with you?
Oh, Mary, may I go out with you?
Where you goin' up yonder?
House done built without hands.
Up yonder,
House done built without hands.
Who told you?
House done built without hands.
Jesus told me,
House done built without hands.
Walk in,
House done built without hands.
Walk in,
House done built without hands.
Sit down,
House done built without hands.
Sit down,
House done built without hands.
With the father,
House done built without hands.
And the Son,
House done built without hands
Talk about
House done built without hands.
Where you from?
House done built without hands.
Oh Mary, may I go out with you?
Oh Mary, may I go out with you?

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Joe Lee/Jimmie Strothers- House Done Built Without Hands

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Field Recordings Volume 1 Virginia (1936-1942) Buy the album on which this track appears by going to www.document-records.com Document Records has the largest catalogue of vintage blues, gospel, jazz and old-time country music in the world

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"Run Old Jeremiah": Echoes of the Ring Shout

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Spirituals and work songs, rooted in both the slavery era and the West African societies from which most African-American slaves were originally taken, provided cultural sustenance to African Americans in the midst of intense racial oppression. Folklorists first began collecting traditional southern music in the late-19th century.

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Look Down That Long, Lonesome Road		 My time, time so long. (hah)Look down, (hah) look down,That long, lonesome road,where you (hah) and I, I must go.Stand back, stand backAll you five [and] ten cent men:Dollar man knocking on, on my door.Hattie Bell, Hattie Bell,O she's my own, own true love,Darlin', what have, have I done?

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Look Down That Long, Lonesome Road		 My time, time so long. (hah)Look down, (hah) look down,That long, lonesome road,where you (hah) and I, I must go.Stand back, stand backAll you five [and] ten cent men:Dollar man knocking on, on my door.Hattie Bell, Hattie Bell,O she's my own, own true love,Darlin', what have, have I done?

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Unknown - Look Down That Long Lonesome Road

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Deep River of Song- South Carolina- Recordings by Alan Lomax Buy the album on which this track appears by going to www.document-records.com Document Records has the largest catalogue of vintage blues, gospel, jazz and old-time country music in the world