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Thread #88553   Message #1750482
Posted By: Joe Offer
31-May-06 - 04:35 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Looky, Looky, Yonder (Leadbelly)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Leadbelly Lyrics- Looky, Looky, Yonde
Hi, WAvery -
John was father of Alan Lomax. Bess Lomax Hawes was a song collector, too - she was Alan's sister.
No Lomax brothers that I know of.
I'm listening to the Tradition CD by Leadbelly, In the Shadow of the Gallows Pole. I can't figure from the liner notes when this was recorded, but it seems to be the same as what you transcribed - a medley of "Looky Looky Yonder, Black Betty, and Yellow Women's Doorbells" (which I know as "On a Monday"). Looking again at the Oak Publications Leadbelly Songbook, I think it's a pretty good transcription of "Looky Looky" - it just doesn't include the other two songs from the medley. -Joe Offer-