FTX-930 - HOLD MY HAND, LORD JESUS, HOLD MY HAND

SUE THOMAS, J.B.SUTTON & REBECCA KING JONES

1. HOLD MY HAND, LORD JESUS [TAFS #169] Sue Thomas, Elizabeth City (1941) (talk bef) - 2'09"

2. NOBODY KNOWS HOW HEAVY MY LOAD [TAFS #171] Sue Thomas 2v & ch - 1'43"

3. YOU CAN'T HURRY GOD [TAFS #172] Sue Thomas 2v & ch - 1'54"

4. MAIL DAY [TAFS #173] "Chain Gang Song" J.B.Sutton - 1'12"

5. JAIL HOUSE BLUES [TAFS #174] J.B.Sutton (talk bef) - 1'38"

6. O BUD [#175] J.B.Sutton 0'30"

7. SALLY JANE J.B.Sutton (talk bef) - 0'40"

8. THE ALLIGATOR SONG (talk aft) - 2'04"

9. LATHER AND SHAVE (THE IRISH BARBER) [TAFS #178] (talk bef) - 2'22"

10. THE OLD MILLER (MILLER'S LAST WILL) Warren Payne, Englehard, Hyde County, (1951) - 2'24"

11. Talk with Frank Warner about her birth date, family, singing & courting days:(conversation ended by: "Dinner's ready") Rebecca King Jones, Crab Tree Creek, Durham, NC 1940 - 3'36"

12. THE HOUSE CARPENTER (2v only) - 0'52"

13. BARBARA ALLEN [#187] - two versions - 1'56"

14. AWAKE, AWAKE, YOU DROWSY SLEEPER [#188] - 3'19"

15. THE CHIMBLEY SWEEPER [#189] - 0'49"

16. Lullaby: ROCKA BYE BABY [#190] 3v - 0'31"

17. GOING DOWN TO WELDON - 3v - 0'34"

18. THE WICKED OLD DONKEY THAT LIVED BY THE MILL - 2v & ch - 1'00"

19. THE DRUNKARD'S DREAM - 1'15"

20. CAPTAIN, CAPTAIN (SWEET WILLIAM) - 2v - 0'50"

21. O JOHNNY, DEAR JOHNNY (THE CRUEL WARS ARE RAGING) - 2v - 0'47"

22. THE BRAVE OLD SOLDIER - 1'22"

23. IN A COTTAGE BY THE SEA - 1v - 0'52"

24. LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ELLEN - 2v - 0'44"

25. I DREAMED THAT MY TRUELOVE WAS DYING (GOLDEN LOCKS) - 1'19"

26. THE ROSEWOOD CASKET - 1'22"

Recorded 1940 & 1951, edited by Peter Kennedy and first published on Folktrax Casettes 1987. Phonographic copyright control. Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting or copying is prohibited except by permission.

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.