Lyr Req: Rain or Shine (work song)

Subject: Rain or Shine
From: GUEST,Sluefoot Sue
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 11:54 PM

Hi. I am looking for a Negro work song from the Carolinas called "Rain or Shine." Anyone know it? It's refrain has the same phraseology as an old cowboy song

Rain or shine
Sleet or snow
When I gits done dis time
Won't work no mo.

Thanks in advance Sue

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rain or Shine
From: Karolina
Date: 20 Jul 00 - 09:50 PM

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rain or Shine
From: GUEST,Sluefoot Sue
Date: 20 Jul 00 - 11:22 PM

Thank you Karolina. Are you from the Carolinas? Sue

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rain or Shine
From: Karolina
Date: 21 Jul 00 - 11:30 PM

No, not really. If I were, then perhaps I'd know the song :)Hope somebody will be able to help you.

Karolina

Subject: Lyr Add: RAIN OR SHINE
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 03:58 PM

From American Poetry from the Beginning to Whitman by Louis Untermeyer (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931), page 748:


RAIN OR SHINE

I hoes an' I plows
In all kinds o' weather.
I got to keep a-goin'
'Cause I can't do no better.

Rain or shine,
Sleet or snow,
When I gits done dis time,
Won't work no mo'.

Empty or full,
Sleep or 'wake,
I'm gwine to de party,
Dance fer dat cake.