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RiGGy New CD by SF's Journey Home - Ain't Got Long (5) RE: New CD by SF's Journey Home - Ain't Got Long 25 Mar 13


Thanks for the pix plug, Joe !! I didn't have room on the CD jacket to say a special thank you to Jody Stecher for the title cut. In 1965 he and Peter Siegal went to the Bahamas and recorded I Ain't Got Long sung by Sammy Greene and a small group. He told me recently that the song was actually composed by a sponge fisherman/rhymer named Peter Eliot. He died falling out of a 2nd floor window of a bar into the alley below shortly after writing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_spiritual
http://www.bahamasentertainers.com/Artist/JosephSpence/spence_LPs.html

Years later I heard it performed by former Library of Congress Folk Song archivist Joe Hickerson 


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