Artist: Sarah Ogan Gunning
Author: Sarah Ogan Gunning
Label: L.o.C.
Year: 1937
Alan Lomax recording on the melody of The Cartwright Brothers' Texas Ranger (see there). Tenth of eleven children in a family of miners from Kentucky. Her father was blacklisted for his fight for better wages and her sister was Aunt Molly Jackson (see: I Am A Union Woman). Her half brother Jim Garland wrote I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister (see (I Don't Want Your) Greenback Dollar).
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