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GUEST,Wally Macnow 'Yonder Come Day' - free music files (18) RE: 'Yonder Come Day' - free music files 09 May 10


I'd like to put in some notes about the sources of the songs while I remember them.

Rolling Down to Old Maui - I moved from New York City to Washington, DC in late 1974. At a going away party, Jeff Warner gave me the sheet music. I believe it was transcribed from the singing of Stan Hugill. The yip at the end of the second line of the chorus was in the sheet music. I don't of anyone else who puts it in though.

Yonder Come Day - Bill learned this song either from the singing of Bessie Jones or The Moving Star Hall Singers of the Georgia Sea Islands.

10,000 Miles Away and Poor Little Jesus - were brought to the group by Tom. I don't know his sources.

Chesapeake Gold - was written by Bill. He was inspired by anticle in the Baltimore Sun about couples who, year after year, returned to freshen their memories of the romantic boat tours of Baltimore Harbor.

I haven't a clue as to the source of Crazy Gibberish. I think that Lise Neustadt recorded it but she learned it from us.

Ring It In - was written by Cal and Lonnie Herrmann's daughter. Anne.

I Don't Intend to Die in Egypt Land - is one of those miracle songs that I learned after hearing only once on a live radio broadcast in New York in the 1960s. It was sung by Josh White on Oscar Brand's show.

John Cherokee - came from the singing of Bob Walser who found it in the archives of the Library of Congress.

Judgment came from the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music.

Rolling and Flowing came to us from Dillon Bustin. He either got it from "Steamboatin' Days" or he wrote it. Maybe a combination of the two. One never knows with Dillon.

Take Me Out To The Ball Game - written by Jack Norcross, it is now in the public domain. I heard Michael Cooney sing an offbeat version that was off by two. When we worked on it, we folk processed it to one off.

Lastly, This Song of Love was brought to the group by Bill. When I'm next in touch with him, I'll try to find out his source.


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