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Thread #44059   Message #646331
Posted By: masato sakurai
09-Feb-02 - 10:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Go Way From My Window
Subject: Lyr Add: GO 'WAY F'OM MAH WINDOW
Part of the song can be heard at the John Jacob Niles site (CLICK HERE). The following is the Sandburg version.

GO 'WAY F'OM MAH WINDOW
("This negro woodchopper's song came up from Arkansas and the Ozarks to Tubman K. Hedrick, author of 'The Orientations of Hohen,' when he was a newspaperman in Memphis, Tennessee... Phrases of it time with ax-strokes. 'Go 'way' sinks the ax, 'f'om my window' sinks it again, and so on."--Sandburg)

1.
Go 'way f'om mah window,
Go 'way f'om mah doh,
Go 'way f'om mah bediside,
Don' you tease no mo'!

2.
Go 'way in de springtime,
Come back in de fall,
Bring back mo' money
Dan we bofe can haul.

From: Carl Sandburg, The American Songbag (p. 377; with music). The same version is in the Lomaxes' American Ballads and Folk Songs (p. 198).

~Masato