Negro workaday songs

by Howard Washington Odum; Guy Benton Johnson

O Lawd, I’m on my way.

What makes you hold yo’ head so high?

Any way you hold yo’ head,

That’s way you gonna die,

That’s way you gonna die.

I sho’ don’t want to go,

But I’m goin’ up country

Singin’ nothin’ but you;

I’m goin’ up country,

Singin’ nothin’ but you.