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- First line: Oh kill me a chicken and bring me a wing
- Roud no: 7876 | Book | Text
- Brown, North Carolina Folklore 3 (1952) pp.550-551
- Bowmn, Marvin | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/a986ffb3-c816-47ea-a7d7-6d9854af077e
AIN'T NO USE WORKIN' SO HARD [TRADITIONAL BALLAD INDEX ENTRY]
- Roud no: 7876 | Online index | Historical notes / References
- Traditional Ballad Index (online)
HOW MANY BISCUITS CAN YOU EAT? [TRADITIONAL BALLAD INDEX ENTRY]
- Roud no: 7876 | Online index | Historical notes / References
- Traditional Ballad Index (online)
TELL OLD BILL [TRADITIONAL BALLAD INDEX ENTRY]
- Roud no: 7876 | Online index | Historical notes / References
- Traditional Ballad Index (online)
- First line: Way down yonder on the East Coast line
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Association for Cultural Equity T922R09
- Georgia Sea Island Singers / Unidentified woman / Jones, Bessie | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/304a044b-10e4-44b8-861b-3c23679781aa
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- First line: Way down yonder, hey, on the east coast line
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Association for Cultural Equity T977R34
- Jones, Bessie | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/55d76600-91c4-4fab-8204-95fb4af9afca
- URL link
- First line: Way down yonder, hey, on the East Coast line, hey
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Association for Cultural Equity T982R10
- Jones, Bessie | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/55d76600-91c4-4fab-8204-95fb4af9afca
- URL link
- First line: Way down yonder, hey, on the East Coast line, hey
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Association for Cultural Equity T983R12
- Jones, Bessie | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/55d76600-91c4-4fab-8204-95fb4af9afca
- URL link
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Library of Congress recording AFS 08930 B04
- Hinton, Sam | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/fdaeea05-7095-43c7-9282-e71adbd942ae
WHAT'S YOU GOIN' A DO WHEN THE MEAT GIVES OUT
- First line: What's you goin' a do when the meat gives out
- Roud no: 7876 | Manuscript | Frag. text
- James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress / VWML, London) p.10492
- Michaels, Chloe | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/6e70346f-4ef7-485c-a699-84c4ffcd3a1a
- First line: Well, police come an' I didn't want a go, this mornin'
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio; Text
- Max Hunter Collection (Springfield-Greene County Library) 1540 (MFH 1018)
- Krussel, David | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/aa7c3e28-6ec2-416c-8ee6-7e7d1fcab2ef
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DIS MORNIN' DIS EVENIN' SO SOON
- First line: Tell old Bill, when he leaves home dis mornin'
- Roud no: 7876 | Book | Text; Music
- Sandburg, American Songbag (1927) pp.18-19
- Barnhart, Nancy | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/34b93d7c-7002-4f61-8d50-9b28a86d8977
- First line: When you kill a chicken, save me the head
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio; Text
- Longleaf 001 ('Eight-Hand Sets and Holy Steps')
- Hinton, Algia Mae | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/f76a9859-a950-4d8d-ac23-33aca81f4475
AIN'T NO USE IN WORKING SO HARD
- First line: Ain't no use in working so hard
- Roud no: 7876 | Book | Text
- White, American Negro Folk-Songs (1928) pp.301-302 (version a)
- http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/b2af9fa5-b9e7-4b7f-abab-7113e5ceb256
AIN'T NO USE IN WORKING SO HARD
- First line: I got a 'oman in the white folk's yard
- Roud no: 7876 | Book | Text
- White, American Negro Folk-Songs (1928) pp.301-302 (version b)
- http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/b2af9fa5-b9e7-4b7f-abab-7113e5ceb256
- First line: Nigger and a white man playing seven up, A
- Roud no: 7876 | Book | Text
- Brown, North Carolina Folklore 3 (1952) pp.547-548
- Frisbie, Zilpah | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/d95a6e30-df65-48d0-8e3c-448e8a47c68a
- First line: Nigger and a white man playing seven-up, A
- Roud no: 7876 | Book | Frag. Text; Music
- Brown, North Carolina Folklore 5 (1962) pp.316-317
- Frisbie, Miss Zilpah | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/d95a6e30-df65-48d0-8e3c-448e8a47c68a
- First line: What'cha gonna do when your shoes wear out this morning
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio; Text
- Alabama Traditions 110 ('Bullfrog Jumped')
- Middleton, Kate Newton | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/eb72f31b-4efb-474e-a1bd-d74bda296dd8
SETTING IN THE CHIMNEY JAMB <SITTING>
- Roud no: 7876 | Journal | Reference only
- Southwest Virginia Folklore 1:1 (Summer 1993) p.24
- Herington, Delmar | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/b6c2642d-ea48-4ee3-acb0-2d232459a43f
- First line: Come in town on an easy walk-a
- Roud no: 7876 | Journal | Frag. Text; Music
- Smith: Pubns. of the Texas Folklore Soc. 7 (1928) p.116
- Baker, Louis | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/b67e4d0b-a14c-4b9b-96ab-f03515b8381e
DIS MORNIN' DIS EVENIN' SO SOON
- First line: Tell old Bill when he leaves home dis mornin'
- Roud no: 7876 | Book | Text; Music
- Shay, More Pious Friends & Drunken Companions (1928) pp.135-136
- Smith, William B. | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301
THIS MO'NIN' THIS EVENIN' SOMETIME
- First line: What you gwain to do when the meat gives out, my baby
- Roud no: 7876 | Journal | Text; Music
- Thomas: Pubns. of the Texas Folklore Soc. 5 (1926) pp.175-177
- http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/067d92de-b8f0-4cf2-84ef-55208097db5f
THIS MORNING THIS EVENING RIGHT NOW
- First line: Well an old hen a-settin' in a chimney jamb
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio; Text
- Folk-Legacy FSA 24 (`Carolina Tar Heels')
- Carolina Tar Heels | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/70f97c2c-8656-4e05-b23b-cf023a59a192
- First line: How many biscuits can you eat this morning
- Roud no: 7876 | Book | Text; Music
- Wiseman, Lulu Belle's & Skyland Scotty's Home Folk Songs (1937) p.45
- Wiseman, Skyland Scotty & Lulu Belle | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301
- First line: Way down yonder where I come from
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Proper P1213 ('Bluegrass Bonanza 1: String Bands Roots 1927-38')
- Johnson, Earl & his Clodhoppers | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301
SETTIN' IN THE CHIMNEY JAMB <SETTING> <SITTING>
- First line: Well it ain't no use in me working so hard
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Document DOCD 8057 ('Complete Recorded Works 2')
- Tanner, Gid & his Skillet-Lickers | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/55d76600-91c4-4fab-8204-95fb4af9afca
THIS MORNIN' THIS EVENIN' SO SOON
- First line: Went up town wid my hat in my han' dis mornin'
- Roud no: 7876 | Book | Text
- Odum & Johnson, The Negro and His Songs (1925) pp.214-215
- http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301
- First line: Well, jumped on the dummy, didn't have no fare
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio; Text
- Library of Congress AFS L68 ('Folk-Songs of America') / Website: Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932
- Harney, Ben | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/5270df59-87c7-4e73-b1ea-8e25da35689b
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- First line: How many biscuits can you eat
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Rounder 0129 ('The Watson Family Tradition')
- Watson, Doc | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/70f97c2c-8656-4e05-b23b-cf023a59a192
- First line: Way down yonder where I come from
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Historical HLP 8003 ('Traditional Country Classics 1927-1929')
- Johnson, Earl & his Clodhoppers | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/af5ddb3f-cba2-4193-bc7c-97b56e30278e
- First line: Way down yonder where I come from
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- County 543 ('Red Hot Breakdown')
- John, Earl & his Clodhoppers | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/55d76600-91c4-4fab-8204-95fb4af9afca
- First line: See dem ole farmers goin' on to town, this mornin'
- Roud no: 7876 | Journal | Text
- Perrow, Journal of American Folklore 28 (1915) p.137
- http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/3870f05f-60e0-43eb-a8ba-2aad5cb3d292
THIS MORNING THIS EVENING SO SOON
- Roud no: 7876 | Discography | Reference only
- Meade, Country Music Sources (2002) pp.505-506
- http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301
- First line: How many biscuits can you eat, this morning
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Rounder CD 0439/40 ('North Carolina Banjo Collection')
- Watson, Arnold
OLD HEN SETTING IN A CHIMLEY JAM
- First line: How many biscuits can you eat this morning, this morning
- Roud no: 7876 | Book | Text
- Mainer, Songs as Sung by J.E. Mainer and his Mountaineers (c1970?) p.16
- Mainer, J.E. | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/0f5e4230-37d1-47a2-b2a1-354551f8071e
OLD HEN SITTING IN A CHIMMY JAMB
- First line: Old hen sitting in a chimmy jamb, this mornin'
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Rural Rhythm RHY 1032 ('Old Time Mountain Music & More Old Time Mountain Music')
- Mainer, J.E. & his Mountaineers | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/70f97c2c-8656-4e05-b23b-cf023a59a192
THERE AIN'T NO USE IN ME WORKING SO HARD
- First line: Well there ain't no use in me working so hard
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- JSP 7780 ('Serenade in the Mountains')
- Carolina Tar Heels | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/af5ddb3f-cba2-4193-bc7c-97b56e30278e
- First line: Well it ain't no use me working so hard
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Old Hat CD 1005 ('Good for what ails you')
- Carolina Tar Heels | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/af5ddb3f-cba2-4193-bc7c-97b56e30278e
- First line: Kill a chicken, save me the head
- Roud no: 7876 | Newspaper | Text
- The State (Columbia, SC) (1 Jan 1956) p.16
- Rambo, Brooks | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/192183a7-f3fb-4c22-b325-99d22c75fd4c
- URL link
AIN'T NO USE OF ME WORKIN' SO HARD <WORKING>
- First line: Ain't no use of me workin' so hard
- Roud no: 7876 | Newspaper | Frag. text
- The State (Columbia, SC) (21 Nov 1954) p.17
- http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/a3b694d8-9a40-4679-9f48-3987745125a9
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SETTIN' IN THE CHIMNEY JAMB <SETTING> <SITTING>
- First line: Well it ain't no use in me working so hard
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- JSP 77155 ('Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers' boxed set)
- Tanner, Gid & his Skillet-Lickers | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/55d76600-91c4-4fab-8204-95fb4af9afca
SETTIN' IN THE CHIMNEY JAMB <SETTING> <SITTING>
- First line: Well it ain't no use in me working so hard
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- JSP 77155 ('Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers' boxed set)
- Tanner, Gid & his Skillet-Lickers | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/55d76600-91c4-4fab-8204-95fb4af9afca
- First line: Way down on the East Coast line, honey
- Roud no: 7876 | Thesis | Text; Music
- Buford, Folk Songs of Florida and Texas (1941) p.76
- Spann, Mrs. S.R. | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/067d92de-b8f0-4cf2-84ef-55208097db5f
THIS MORNIN' THIS EVENIN' SO SOON
- First line: Went up town wid my hat in my han' dis mo'nin'
- Roud no: 7876 | Journal | Text
- Odum: Journal of American Folklore 24 (1911) pp.355-356
- http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301
- First line: How many biscuits can I eat, this morning
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- RCA Victor LPV-552 ('Early Rural String Bands')
- Foster, Gwen | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/d9be0a75-e6a3-44df-8005-2b4a1f4e946e
- First line: Oh how many biscuits can you eat, this morning
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- County 712 ('The Coon Creek Girls')
- Coon Creek Girls | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301
- First line: How many biscuits can you eat, this morning
- Roud no: 7876 | Sound recording | Audio
- Old Homestead OHCS 142 ('Early Radio Favorites')
- Coon Creek Girls | http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301
TELL OLD BILL [TRADITIONAL BALLAD INDEX ENTRY]
- Roud no: 7876 | Online index | Historical notes / References
- Traditional Ballad Index (online) San018
- URL link
AIN'T NO USE WORKIN' SO HARD [TRADITIONAL BALLAD INDEX ENTRY]
- Roud no: 7876 | Online index | Historical notes / References
- Traditional Ballad Index (online) DarNS329
- URL link
HOW MANY BISCUITS CAN YOU EAT? [TRADITIONAL BALLAD INDEX ENTRY]
- Roud no: 7876 | Online index | Historical notes / References
- Traditional Ballad Index (online) RcHMBCYE
- URL link