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id: 35410
title: Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes
author: nan
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  strictly speaking, "Annancy stories" or not, come under the heading of So one day the King t''ree gal gone out to bathe, an'' Brother Annancy An'' so comes it that Tomby catch Justina an'' send for Mr. Annancy an'' make him a present to be a wife. Bro''er Annancy want fe kill Parson Cow, begin with a big confusion, In the morning Monkey laugh, say:--"Bro''er Annancy, If me min come in When the butcher them gone, Mr. Blackbird come down, he an'' Mr. Annancy, an'' go inside the house the very same as the butcher them do, An'' Annancy tell Snake that he know he is a man love blood, an'' when An when the old-witch boy come, Annancy An'' Annancy send an'' tell the old lady that the man is here clever By Annancy come back him don''t see no goat, only a big old man An'' Annancy made a sing when he is coming home:--


id: 35592
title: Some Current Folk-Songs of the Negro
author: Thomas, W. H. (William Henry)
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  SOME CURRENT FOLK-SONGS OF THE NEGRO _Read before the Folk-Lore Society of Texas, 1912_ WILL THOMAS AND THE TEXAS FOLK-LORE SOCIETY Now that this brochure is being reprinted by the Texas Folk-Lore Society, Although not a numbered publication, =Some Current Folk-Songs of the Negro= work with folk-lore should not only collect it but interpret it and also at San Marcos, who has done notable work in Negro folk songs and who is SOME CURRENT FOLK-SONGS OF THE NEGRO AND THEIR ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION. misleading at this day and time to speak of the negro as a "folk." That Now a great change has come into the negro''s economic life within the past follow one as he works with a white man, the latter, of course, being If you consider these songs as the negro''s literature, you will notice We now come to songs originated by the present generation of negroes.


