Artist: Ernest Williams & group
Author: traditional
Label: Rounder
Year: 1933
John & Alan Lomax recording at the Sugarland State Farm in Texas. Chain-gangers working in the cane- & cornfields, begging for the sun to go down and never to come up again. From Deep River Of Song-series Big Brazos and on Lomax comp The Land Where The Blues Began.
Covers:
Lead Belly [another Lomax recording]
Alexis Korner [with Guy Carawan]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)