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Lyr Req: Hammer Ring (Let Your Hammer Ring)
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hammer Ring (Let Your Hammer Ring) From: Barry Finn Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:20 PM Masato's version above is only one Jackson recorded of 19 from the Texas prison system alone. On the same collection (& on the same CD) note that the song "Timber Getting Limber" (sung by Joe "Chinaman") also recorded at Ellis farm (both, Texas 8/21/65 & both crosscutting) is yet another variation on the same. Lomax also has a version of "Hammer Ring" on his Deep River Collection (Big Brazos) sung by "Lightning" Washington from the Darrington farm (Texas 1934). Yet another version of this song (on the Arhoolie lable) by Harry Oster was recorded at Angola farm, Louisiana 1959. Oster claims this was used at Angola as a spike driving song until the dimise of the RR at the farm & then was used as a wood-chopping song (by wood chopping I take it to mean crossing cutting). Barry |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hammer Ring (Let Your Hammer Ring) From: masato sakurai Date: 25 Jun 02 - 01:12 AM I can't hear nobody holler...
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hammer Ring (Let Your Hammer Ring) From: masato sakurai Date: 25 Jun 02 - 12:52 AM e-mail sent. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: HAMMER RING From: masato sakurai Date: 25 Jun 02 - 12:45 AM It's on Wake Up Dead Man: Black Convict Worksongs from Texas Prisons (Rounder CD 2013) [with sound clip].
HAMMER RING
I'm goin' down to the bottom*, let your hammer ring... (2x)
Glossary
Bruce Jackson (editor of the CD) collected 7 versions of "Hammer Ring", and published them in his book Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons (Harvard University Press, 1972, pp. 193-201; two versions are with music). ~Masato
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hammer Ring (Let Your Hammer Ring) From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 25 Jun 02 - 12:01 AM Put -hammer- into the Digitrad and Forum Search, and Hammer Ring is one of the songs that comes up. Also a midi. |
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Subject: Hammer Ring (Let Your Hammer Ring) From: GUEST,razimir@ix.netcom.com Date: 24 Jun 02 - 11:28 PM How do! Does anybody know the lyrics to this song, or a link that might have it? The verse goes something like "Well I'ver been (something) and a-(something) with my hammer ring..." I believe it appeared on the Folkways "Wake Up Dead Man" album. I've done a fair amount of searching to no avail. Thanks! Cas |
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