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Jump, Jim Crow; Jump Jim Crow; Jim Crow; Is that you, Sambo? NO, it 'tis Jim

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Dethero, W.T.

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voice Collected by T. W. Dethero Mary Celestia Parler; Batesvllle, Ark. Transcribed by April 13, 1955 Neil Byer Reel 228, Item 19 Jump, Jim Crow Is that you, Sambo? NO, it 'tis Jim; You ain't got good-looking and you can't come in, And there's no use a-knock ing at the door anymore, And there's no use a-knocking at the door anymore. Riding up a goat and leading up a sheep, Won't get home till the middle of the week, And there's no use a-knocking at the door anymore, And there's no use a-knocking at the door anymore. Where you going, buzzard? Where you going, crow? Going over the river for to jump Jim Crow. And there's no use a-knocking at the door anymore, And there's no use a-knocking at the door anymore. Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation.
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Parler, Mary CelestiaByer, Neil
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1955 04 13
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Ozark Folksong Collection

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University of Arkansas

Keywords

  1. A Capella Singing
  2. Minstrels
  3. Sambo, Jim Crow

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