Bob:

"Black Annie" from the singing of Dink Roberts on "Black Banjo Songsters":

[spoken]
Black Annie weep, Black Annie moan
Black Annie drinking of the glass

[sung]
Well, yeah, Black Annie went down to the barroom door
Calls for a four dollar jug
Hand it down, quick as you can
Don't let my man catch me here

[spoken]
What say, banjo?

[sung]
Way down, way down, way down in Egypt some time

[spoken]
What say, banjo?

[sung]
Hey, hand it down, quick as you can
Don't let my man catch me here

first shot he did make
Landed in the facing of the door

[spoken]
What you say, banjo?

[sung]
Next shot he did make
Landed in the facing of the door
Then the third shot he did make
Landed in Black Annie's side

Said y'oughta been there, hear her moan
Could not hear from cryin'.

[spoken]
What say, banjo?

[sung]
Way behind the hill
Poor Black Annie got killed
Never know the death that she died

Way down, way,
Black Annie weep, Black Annie moan
Black Annie dead and gone.

Textually, this is somewhat fragmentary, but this is generally true of Dink Roberts' songs. He talks and sings over his banjo picking, more allusively than narratively. Roberts learned the song about 1908 from a friend he thought might have composed it, based on a real event. Conway mentions a version on Hobart Smith's Folk Legacy LP that I haven't heard.

Q:

The Black Banjo Songsters set is well worth picking up. It features, principally, John Snipes, Dink Roberts, and Joe and Odell Thompson, with some individual tracks by other artists, including John Jackson, Etta Baker & Cora Phillips, Uncle Homer Walker, Lewis Hairston, and Rufus Kasey. A second volume is supposed to be forthcoming. Several of the artists, including Hairston, Walker, and Kasey, are included in the DLA audio files. See also Robert Winans' 1979 article on black banjo players of VA and WV, http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/ffv1.htm, which names several additional musicians for some of whom DLA includes audio, as well as a cross referenced list of common repertoire songs.