FTX-930 - HOLD
MY HAND, LORD JESUS, HOLD MY HAND
SUE THOMAS, J.B.SUTTON & REBECCA KING JONES
| The black singer, SUE THOMAS recorded for the Warners, HE'S
GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS, a song now widely known from such as Marian
Anderson, Mahalia Jackson, Odetta and, in England, Lonnie Donegan. Sue's
son, J.B.SUTTON, was a chauffeur in Elizabeth City. Warren Payne (74) was
the mail-man at Gull Rock and learned his song from his father at Fairfield.
REBECCA KING JONES, over 70, in a calico dress, apron, boots and sun-bonnet,
lived alone in a little cabin in the woods at Crab Tree Creek, between Durham
and Raleigh, North Caerolina. Ten of the songs (#1-6 & #13-16) are included
in TRADITIONAL AMERICAN FOLK SONGS by Frank and Anne Warner published by
Syracuse Universirty 1984. |
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Rebecca King Jones, Crab Tree Creek
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HOLD MY HAND, LORD JESUS - NOBODY KNOWS HOW HEAVY MY LOAD - YOU CAN'T HURRY
GOD - MAIL DAY "Chain Gang Song" - JAIL HOUSE BLUES - O BUD - SALLY JANE - THE
ALLIGATOR SONG - LATHER AND SHAVE (THE IRISH BARBER) - THE OLD MILLER (MILLER'S
LAST WILL) - Talk with Frank Warner about her birth date, family, singing &
courting days - THE HOUSE CARPENTER - BARBARA ALLEN - two versions - AWAKE,
AWAKE, YOU DROWSY SLEEPER - THE CHIMBLEY SWEEPER - Lullaby: ROCKA BYE BABY -
GOING DOWN TO WELDON - THE WICKED OLD DONKEY THAT LIVED BY THE MILL - THE DRUNKARD'S
DREAM - CAPTAIN, CAPTAIN (SWEET WILLIAM) - 2v O JOHNNY, DEAR JOHNNY (THE CRUEL
WARS ARE RAGING) - THE BRAVE OLD SOLDIER - IN A COTTAGE BY THE SEA - LORD THOMAS
AND FAIR ELLEN - I DREAMED THAT MY TRUELOVE WAS DYING (GOLDEN LOCKS) - THE ROSEWOOD
CASKET
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