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03 Sep 19 - 05:37 PM (#4007203) Subject: Lyr Add: Momma Oh re trail of slaves From: mg best song i have heard in two years. greatly singable..country style. tragic story of slaves (and ex slaves) looking for family heard it at tumbleweed festival by group named appaloosa..it is on a cd and not expensive. best to buy cd to hear tune. i do plan to do record on my cell phone..so people can get the tune but much better to get it from them. here are words as i heard. undoubtedly needs corrections. re trail of slaves end of civil war i was sold to joseph brennan he took me down to new orleans my name then was hanna person purcell? it is now hanna jean it is now hanna jean momma oh you read that good book you got your marker and it sings the blues momma oh you want to go and dance i'm singing this in dead girl shoes? momma oh you're a shooting star drift on so fast like the poor folks do momma oh you want to hold our hand not a rabbit's foot nothing left to lose i was sold to someone other brother sam and annabelle jo who were left without our mother if they're alive i'd like to know momma oh you read that good book you got your marker and it sings the blues momma ohyou want to go and dance i'm singing this in dead girl shoes? momma oh you're a shooting star drift on so fast like the poor folks do momma ohyou want to hold our hand not a rabbit's foot nothing left to lose they're all gone and i'm alone now swept away down the trail of slaves we can write to all the papers praying mama ain't in her grave momma oh you read that good book you got your marker and it sings the blues momma oh you want to go and dance i'm singing this in dead girl shoes? momma oh you're a shooting star drift on so fast like the poor folks do momma oh you want to hold our hand not a rabbit's foot nothing left to lose |
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03 Sep 19 - 05:48 PM (#4007206) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Momma Oh re trail of slaves From: Joe Offer Hmmm. Sounds familiar, but I can't find it. It sounds like it was inspired by several of the powerful songs written by Rhiannon Giddens, formerly of Carolina Chocolate Drops. -Joe- |
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03 Sep 19 - 06:09 PM (#4007210) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Momma Oh re trail of slaves From: GUEST,Starship Lyrics here. https://appaloosamusic.wordpress.com/lyrics-2/momma-oh/ |
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03 Sep 19 - 06:15 PM (#4007213) Subject: ADD: Momma Oh (recorded by Appaloosa) From: Joe Offer Bingo! Good find, Starship! MOMMA, OH (recorded by Appaloosa, songwriter-?) B A E F# B A E B B F# B CHORUS: Pa was sold to someone other CHORUS…………………….SOLO They’re all gone, I’m alone now CHORUS |
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03 Sep 19 - 06:23 PM (#4007215) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Momma Oh re trail of slaves From: GUEST,Starship Songwriters seem to be Dottie and Eli Ashley. https://www.bendbulletin.com/entertainment/6928696-151/appaloosa-expands-on-first-live-album |
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03 Sep 19 - 06:25 PM (#4007217) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Momma Oh re trail of slaves From: Joe Offer I got a nice facebook message from Dottie Ashley of Appaloosa: Nice... "Momma Oh" and it is indeed about the Trail of Slaves. Got the idea for the song from a story in the Smithsonian magazine I think. Over 4 million were bought, sold,and traded, and after the war was over and people were trying to find their families, not many could read or write so they had other folks write to the newspapers for help. Of course, so many names were changed, so many people had moved, families torn apart...so tragic. We write so many socially conscious songs. One of my other tunes was picked up by a radio station in Arlington VA for MLK weekend. It's called "Uncivil War". About Freddie Gray and Emmett Till...and Ferguson and Baltimore and how things haven't changed. Anyway, let me know how I can help. Dottie Ashley Appaloosa |
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04 Sep 19 - 03:03 PM (#4007347) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Momma Oh re trail of slaves From: mg i think we should assemble a list of songs about this topic...best of course would be from those who experienced this. I should say that I am descended from slave ?? what is a good word..not owners. I am on ancestry.com and apparently have many cousins from Cameroon due to the abuses of slavery..also said to be related to those who ran a "bride" "plantation". I am also related to the williams of jasper county georgia, book by same name. Irish and undoubtedly others used the papers to find missing family also. song reminds me somewhat of lily of the valley as sung in cornwall. something about the shoes..the shoes i wear are gospel shoes and you can wear them if you choose. Dead girl shoes...very sad but when times were very awful no pair of shoes probably went unused. |