Oh Brother Rabbit, Shake It

Date recorded: September 3, 1937
Contributor(s): Performer: Patterson, Alzea; Performer: Woodard, Lloyd Lee; Performer: Abrams, Lawrence M.; Recordist: Lomax, John A.

Subject(s):

Genre: children's song, play song

Instruments: voice

Setting: Piney Woods School

Language: English

Location: Piney Woods, Rankin County, Mississippi, United States

Tape number: AFS0879

Track Number: 2

Archive ID: 0879A3

Note: Identified as "Oh Br'r Rabbit" on AFS card, which also identifies Abram as "L.M. Abrahams." As Chris Smith writes in Blues & Gospel Records, 1890-1943, "Abram[s] and Lloyd Lee Woodard founded The Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi (The Jackson Harmoneers) with three other blind members of the school."

Transcript:
Belongs to: Piney Woods 9/37

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