CHAIN GANG SPECIAL

Created on 03/11/2020
Latest update on 02/08/2023

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:

1929:

Uncle Dave Macon [as Buddy Won't You Roll Down The Line; re-issued on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music]

1956:

Pete Seeger [as Roll Down The Line]

1963:

Woody Guthrie [with Sonny Terry]

2020:

Joachim Cooder [as Come Along Buddy with own lyrics on his Uncle Dave Macon tribute Over The Road I'm Bound]

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