INDEX TO SONGS

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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]