Note: No more specific title was given. See Alan Lomax's "'Sinful' Songs of the Southern Negro" (1934) for a transcription of this song, and the story of its recording. In that piece he gives Camp 1 as the recording site, thus it is included here.
Technical Note: 1859A2 is a recording of Mrs. Millett at the Libary of Congress.
About the session: The first of the Lomax recordings made at Parchman Farm—songs and hollers recorded in several of the penitentiary's camps.
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