Work gang songs, fragments from Newman I. White, "American Negro Folk Songs,"

No. 36
I been hammering- huh
All over Georgia- huh
Alabama too- huh
Alabama too- huh
(Coll. 1915, Alabama, sung by Negro ditch-diggers)

No. 38
Oh let the sun go down- hunk
And we'll get rest- hunk
Oh let the sun go down- hunk
And we'll be blest.
(1919, prisoner on Public Works, South Carolina)