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Every morning about seven o'clock There's a hundred tarriers a workin at the rock The boss comes along and he says, "Keep still And come down heavy on the cast iron drill." And drill, ye tarriers, drill Drill, ye tarriers, drill For it's work all day for the...

From the Land of Sky-blue Water, They brought a captive maid, And her eyes they are lit with lightnings, Her heart is not afraid! But I steal to her lodge at dawning, I woo her with my flute; She is sick for the Sky-blue Water, The captive maid is mute. 

Glory glory, hallelujah, Since I lay (laid) my burden down. Glory glory, hallelujah, Since I lay (laid) my burden down. All my sickness will be over, When I lay my burden down. All my sickness will be over, When I lay my burden down. All my troubles will be...

1. I'm going down this road feeling bad I'm going down this road feeling bad I'm going down this road feeling bad, lord, lord And I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way 2. I'm down in the jailhouse on my knees Down in the jailhouse on my knees Down in the jail...

Sitting by the roadside on a summer's day Chatting with my mess-mates, passing time away Lying in the shadows underneath the trees Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas. Peas, peas, peas, peas Eating goober peas Goodness, how delicious, Eating goober pe...

Let us close our game of poker, take our tin cups in our hand As we all stand by the cook’s tent door As dried mummies of hard crackers are handed to each man. O, hard tack, come again no more! R: ‘Tis the song, the sigh of the hungry: “Hard tack, hard tack,...

I used to work in Wisconsin Behind the smorgasbord In the cafeteria. A lady came in the door. She said she wanted a boiled egg. I said 'What part do you like?' Yolk she vanted, a yoke I told. I'll never work there anymore... 

Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton, Old times there are not forgotten. Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land! In Dixie's Land, where I was born in, early on one frosty mornin'. Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land! I wish I was in Dixie,...

I've been working on the railroad All the live-long day. I've been working on the railroad Just to pass the time away. Don't you hear the whistle blowing, Rise up so early in the morn; Don't you hear the captain shouting, "Dinah, blow your horn!" Dinah, won'...

When I first came to town, They called me the roving jewel; Now they've changed their tune, They call me Katy Cruel, Oh, diddle, lully day, Oh, de little lioday. R: Oh that I was where I would be, Then I would be where I am not, Here I am where I must be, Go...

There's a dark and a troubled side of life; There's a bright and a sunny side, too; Tho' we meet with the darkness and strife, The sunny side we also may view. [R] Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side, Keep on the sunny side of life; It will help...

When first I came to Louisville some pleasure there to find, A damsel fair from Lexington was pleasing my mind. Her cherry cheeks and ruby lips, like arrows pierced my breast,— They called her Handsome Mary, the Lily ot the West. I courted her awhile, in hope...

You've got to walk that lonesome valley Well you gotta go by yourself Well there ain't nobody else gonna go there for you You gotta go there by yourself Now mother walked that lonesome valley Now mother walked, she walked it by herself Well there ain't nobody...

I've got a mule, her name is Sal Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal She's a good old worker and a good old pal Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal We've hauled some barges in our day Filled with lumber, coal, and hay And we know every inch of the way From Albany to B...

In a long green, valley on the old Kentucky shore Sure I've whiled many happy hours away, Just a sitting and a singing by the little cabin door Where lived my darling Nellie Gray When the moon had climbed the mountain, and the stars were shining bright I'd tak...

O, Death. O, Death. Won't you spare me over 'til another year? Well, what is this that I can't see With ice cold hands takin' hold of me Well I am death, none can excel I'll open the door to heaven or hell 'O, death' someone would pray 'Could you wait...

In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner forty niner, And his daughter Clementine Oh my darling, oh my darling, Oh my darling, Clementine! you are lost and gone forever Dreadful sorry, Clementine Light she was and like a fairy, And her s...

I came from Salem City with my washpan on my knee I'm going to California, the gold dust for to see. It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry The sun so hot I froze to death, Oh, brothers don't you cry. Oh, Susannah, Oh, don't you cry for me...

The monkey dressed in soldier clothes, Old Aunt Jemima, oh! oh! oh! Went out in the woods for to drill some crows, Old Aunt Jemima, oh! oh! oh! The jay bird hung on the swinging limb, Old Aunt Jemima, oh! oh! oh! I up with a stone and hit him on the shin...

I've always been cheerful and easy, And scarce have I needed a foe. While some after money run crazy, I merrily Rosin'd the Bow. Some youngsters were panting for fashions, Some new kick seemed now all the go, But having no turbulent passions, My motto was "Ro...