ON A MONDAY

Created on 06/03/2001
Latest update on 28/09/2022

Artist: Lead Belly
Author: Huddie Ledbetter
Label: Asch
Year: 1943

Worksong; in fact more a marching song for anyone on his way to work. Also as Ain't Gonna Ring Them Yellow Women No Bells. In '39 he sang it in medley with Looky Looky Yonder and Black Betty.

Covers:

1957:

Lonnie Donegan

1959:

Johnny Cash [as I Got Stripes, crediting Charlie Williams]

1972:

Ry Cooder

1975:

Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger

2000:

Dale Watson [as Stripes Across My Shoulders]

2007:

Detroit Cobras

2012:

Jerry Douglas

2017:

David Rawlings [as Good God A Woman]

Laurence Gellert Chandler made an anonymous field recording in 1935 and in 1936 John Williams recorded a T'Was On A Monday for the Library of Congress, but both with different melodies.

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