| PAGE |
|---|
| A Creeper’s Been ’Roun’ Dis Do’ | [149] |
| A Nigger’s Hard to Fool | [180] |
| A Vampire of Your Own | [143] |
| All Boun’ in Prison | [79] |
| All Right | [109] |
| All Us Niggers ’hind de Bars | [87] |
| Angels Lookin’ at Me | [198] |
| Baby, Why Don’t You Treat Me Right? | [148] |
| Bad Man Lazarus | [50] |
| Bear Cat Down in Georgia | [121] |
| Berda, You Come Too Soon | [128] |
| Better’n I Has at Home | [85] |
| Billy Bob Russell | [54] |
| Bloodhoun’ on My Track | [66] |
| Bolin Jones | [62] |
| Boys, Put Yo’ Hands on It | [107] |
| Buffalo Bill | [67] |
| Can Any One Take Sweet Mama’s Place? | [156] |
| Captain, Captain, Let Wheelers Roll | [102] |
| Captain, I’ll Be Gone | [100] |
| Captain, I Wanta Go Home | [45] |
| Casey Jones | [126] |
| Chain Gang Blues | [78] |
| Chicken Never Roost Too High fo’ Me | [133] |
| Co’n Bread | [181] |
| Creepin’ ’Roun’ | [63] |
| Daddy Mine | [155] |
| Darlin’, Get on de Road | [132] |
| Das ’Nough Said | [130] |
| Dat Brown Gal Baby Done Turn Me Down | [137] |
| Dat Chocolate Man | [161] |
| Dat Leadin’ Houn’ | [67] |
| Dat Nigger o’ Mine Don’t Love Me No Mo’ | [162] |
| Dat Sly Gal | [164] |
| De Chocolate Gal | [153] |
| De Co’t House in de Sky | [184] |
| De Devil’s Been to My House | [193] |
| De Goat’s Got a Smell | [131] |
| De Mulatto Gal | [153] |
| De Woman Am de Cause of It All | |
| A | [142] |
| B | [143] |
| De Women Don’t Love Me No Mo’ | [141] |
| Dem Chain Gang Houn’s | [86] |
| Dem Longin’, Wantin’ Blues | [162] |
| Dem Turrible Red Hot Blues | [130] |
| Dere’s a Lizzie After My Man | [163] |
| Dere’s Misery in Dis Lan’ | [161] |
| Dew-Drop Mine | [149] |
| Dey Got Each and de Udder’s Man | [144] |
| Dey’s Hangin’ ’roun’ Her Do’ | [148] |
| Diamond Joe | [130] |
| Didn’t Ol’ Pharaoh Get Lost? | [191] |
| Dig-a My Grave Wid a Silver Spade | [129] |
| Don’t Fool Wid Me | [63] |
| Don’t Wanta See Her No Mo’ | [137] |
| Don’t You Give Me No Cornbread | [105] |
| Don’t You Hear? | [68] |
| Don’t You Two-time Me | [156] |
| Dove Came Down by the Foot of My Bed | [127] |
| Dupree | [55] |
| Dupree’s Jail Song | [123] |
| Dupree Tol’ Betty | [57] |
| Everybody Call Me the Wages Man | [116] |
| “Free Labor” Gang Song | [90] |
| Give Me a Teasin’ Brown | [146] |
| Go ’Long Mule | [177] |
| Goin’ Back to de Gang | [86] |
| Goin’ Down Dat Lonesome Road | [46] |
| Gonna Turn Back Pharaoh’s Army | [191] |
| Good Lawd, I Am Troubled | [192] |
| Good Morning, Mr. Epting | [171] |
| Goodby, Sing Hallelu | [205] |
| Goodby, Sookie | [131] |
| Got Me in the Calaboose | [76] |
| Great Scots, You Don’t Know What to Do | [132] |
| Gwine to Git a Home By an’ By | [176] |
| Have Everlastin’ Life | [194] |
| He Got My Gal | [151] |
| He-i-Heira | [92] |
| He Run Me In | [131] |
| He Tuck Her Away | [149] |
| He Wus de Gov’nor of Our Clan | [127] |
| Help Me Drive ’Em | [109] |
| Hi, Jenny, Ho, Jenny Johnson | [185] |
| Home Again, Home Again | [150] |
| Honey Baby | [145] |
| Hot Flambotia an’ Coffee Strong | [112] |
| Hump-back Mule | [179] |
| I Ain’t Done Nothin’ | [69] |
| I Ain’t Free | [71] |
| I Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Make a Fool Out o’ Me | [128] |
| I Ain’t No Stranger | [159] |
| I Am Ready For de Fight | [64] |
| I Belong to Steel-drivin’ Crew | [110] |
| I Bid You a Long Farewell | [197] |
| I Brung a Gal From Tennessee | [137] |
| I Calls My Jesus King Emanuel | [205] |
| I Can’t Keep From Cryin’ | [40] |
| I Done Sol’ My Soul to de Devil | [158] |
| I Don’t Feel Welcome Here | [164] |
| I Don’t Love Him No Mo’ | [162] |
| I Don’t Mind Bein’ in Jail | [77] |
| I Don’t Want No Trouble Wid de Walker | [113] |
| I Don’t Want No Cornbread | [114] |
| I Don’t Want You All to Grieve After Me | [197] |
| I Got a Gal an’ I Can’t Git Her | [147] |
| I Got a Letter, Captain | [82] |
| I Got a Letter From My Man | [158] |
| I Got a Muley | [120] |
| I Got Another Daddy | [165] |
| I Got Chickens on My Back | [128] |
| I Got My Man | [150] |
| I Love Jesus | [195] |
| I Never Will Turn Back | [200] |
| I Rather Be in My Grave | [38] |
| I Steal Dat Corn | [68] |
| I Tol’ My Cap’n That My Feet Was Col’ | [102] |
| I Wants to Go to Heaven | [203] |
| I Went to de Jail House | [79] |
| I Went to See My Gal | [147] |
| I Wish I Was Dead | [39] |
| I Wish I Was Single Again | [163] |
| If Dere’s a Man in de Moon | [143] |
| If I Can Git to Georgia Line | [75] |
| If I’d A-known My Cap’n Was Blin’ | [101] |
| If You Want to See a Pretty Girl | [145] |
| I’m a Natural-bo’n Ram’ler | [65] |
| I’m Comin’ Back | [85] |
| I’m de Hot Stuff Man | [65] |
| I’m de Rough Stuff | [69] |
| I’m Fishin’ Boun’ | [181] |
| I’m Goin’ Back Home | [96] |
| I’m Goin’ Home, Buddie | [43] |
| I’m Goin’ On | [112] |
| I’m Goin’ Out West | [124] |
| I’m Gonna Get Me Another Man | [165] |
| I’m Gonna Have Me a Red Ball All My Own | [132] |
| In de Mornin’ Soon | [201] |
| I’s a Natural-bo’n Eastman | [68] |
| I’s Done Spot My Nigger | [150] |
| I’s Dreamin’ of You | [154] |
| I’s Gonna Shine | [204] |
| I’s Havin’ a Hell of a Time | [138] |
| I’s Swingin’ in de Swinger | [204] |
| Jail House Wail | [73] |
| Jes’ Behol’ What a Number | [194] |
| Jes’ Fer a Day | [87] |
| John Henry (See [Chapter XIII]) | [221]-[240] |
| Judge Gonna Sentence Us So Long | [80] |
| Julia Long | [125] |
| July’s for the Red-bug | [106] |
| Kitty Kimo | [187] |
| Lawd, She Keep on Worryin’ Me | [136] |
| Lawd, Lawd, I’m on My Way | [46] |
| Lawdy, What I Gonna Do? | [139] |
| Layin’ Low | [62] |
| Left Wing Gordon (See [Chapter XII]) | [206]-[221] |
| Long, Tall, Brown-skin Girl | [146] |
| Lookin’ Over in Georgia | [121] |
| Mammy-in-law Done Turn Me Out | [141] |
| Missus in de Big House | [117] |
| Mule on the Mountain | [119] |
| My Black Jack | [155] |
| My Gal’s a High Bo’n Lady | [145] |
| My Girl She’s Gone and Left Me | [136] |
| My Home Ain’t Here, Captain | [98] |
| My Jane | [144] |
| My Man Am a Slap-stick Man | [156] |
| My Man He Got in Trouble | [81] |
| Never Turn Back | [107] |
| No Coon But You | [183] |
| No More | [108] |
| Nothin’ to Keep | [115] |
| O Buckeye Rabbit | [110] |
| O Captain, Captain | [94] |
| O Lawd, Mamie | [91] |
| Oh, de Gospel Train’s A-comin’ | [202] |
| Occupied | [164] |
| Ol’ Black Mariah | [87] |
| On de Road Somewhere | [155] |
| On My Las’ Go-’round | [128] |
| Out in de Cabin | [131] |
| Outran Dat Cop | [67] |
| Pharaoh’s Army Got Drownded | [190] |
| Pity Po’ Boy | [38] |
| Please, Mr. Conductor | [44] |
| Po’ Homeless Boy | [43] |
| Po’ Little Girl Grievin’ | [41] |
| Po’ Nigger Got Nowhere to Go | [39] |
| Prisoner’s Song | [83] |
| Pull off Dem Shoes I Bought You | [140] |
| Pullman Porter | [186] |
| Rain or Shine | [129] |
| Raise a Rukus Tonight | |
| A | [173] |
| B | [174] |
| C | [174] |
| Reason I Stay on Job So Long | [112] |
| Reuben | [66] |
| Roscoe Bill | [62] |
| Save Me, Lawd | [196] |
| Section Boss | [93] |
| Shanghai Rooster | [134] |
| She’s Got Another Daddy | [151] |
| Ship My Po’ Body Home | [37] |
| Shoot, Good God, Shoot! | [87] |
| Shoot That Buffalo | [123] |
| Shootin’ Bill | [63] |
| Shot My Pistol in the Heart o’ Town | [70] |
| Since I Laid My Burden Down | [201] |
| Slim Jim From Dark-town Alley | [64] |
| Some o’ Dese Days | [139] |
| Some o’ These Days | [202] |
| Stewball Was a Racer | [133] |
| ’Taint as Bad as I Said | [75] |
| Take Me Back Home | [44] |
| That Liar | [168] |
| That Ol’ Letter | [43] |
| The Judge He Sentence Me | [82] |
| The Sanctified | [195] |
| This Ol’ Hammer | [111] |
| Throw Myself Down in de Sea | [38] |
| Travelin’ Man | [59] |
| Trouble All My Days | [40] |
| Turn Yo’ Damper Down | [126] |
| U-h, U-h, Lawdy | [110] |
| War Jubilee Song | [169] |
| Wash My Overhalls | [126] |
| ’Way Up in the Mountain | [104] |
| We Are Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder | [111] |
| We Will Kneel ’Roun’ de Altar | [193] |
| What Can the Matter Be? | [160] |
| What You Gonna Do? | [195] |
| When He Grin | [69] |
| When I Git Home | [203] |
| When I Lay My Burden Down | [200] |
| When I Wore My Ap’on Low | [157] |
| When I’s Dead an’ Gone | [197] |
| Who Built de Ark? | [191] |
| Whoa, Mule | [179] |
| Who’s Goin’ to Buy Your Whiskey? | [129] |
| Will I Git Back Home? | [45] |
| Woke up Wid My Back to the Wall | [84] |
| Worried Anyhow | [160] |
| Wring Jing Had a Little Ding | [175] |
| Yonder Come de Devil | [130] |
| You Calls Me in de Mornin’ | [129] |
| You Mus’ Shroud My Body | [199] |
| You Take de Stockin’, I Take de Sock | [140] |
| You Take de Yaller, I Take de Black | [146] |