Artist: Watts & Wilson
Author: traditional
Label: Paramount
Year: 1927
Wilmer Watts & Frank Wilson & Charles Freshour, cotton mill workers from North Carolina. Song with roots in the Coal Creek Wars (1891-1892) when black laborors revolted against a working situation unchanged since slavery days.
Covers:
Uncle Dave Macon [as Buddy Won't You Roll Down The Line; re-issued on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music]
Pete Seeger [as Roll Down The Line]
Woody Guthrie [with Sonny Terry]
Joachim Cooder [as Come Along Buddy with own lyrics on his Uncle Dave Macon tribute Over The Road I'm Bound]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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