Little Baby Frenchman (fragment)

Audio file

Date recorded: August 9, 1933 to August 10, 1933
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified men; Recordist: Lomax, John A.
Subject(s):
Genre: work song
Instruments: voice, axe(s)
Setting: Unidentified camp, Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary)
Language: English
Location: Parchman, Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States
Tape number: AFS1865
Track Number: 1
Archive ID: 1865B1
Note: Compare with "Little Baby Franklin" on AFS 892B1. Alan Lomax recorded another work song that used "Frenchman" (as opposed to "Franklin") at Parchman in 1959.
Technical Note: P/S correction to -0.88 / 95%.
Transcript:
Belongs to: Parchman Farm 8/33
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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