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Harold B. Hazelhurst (HBH): I'm 30 yrs old, born in Georgia, reared in Florida, a water boy on the Marlboro camp, introduces a song.
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52:23
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I was born in Georgia and reared in Florida.
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I learned this song in middle Florida.
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I was water boy on the hard road camp and the men during the day would sing these songs while they were working.
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Uh, it was called . . . it didn't have no particular name. They called it 'the Captain's Mule.'
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55:04
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You say that was sung on the hard road camp?
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7:07:00
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Yes, sir.
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55:09
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Well, it was during the day when it was warm weather and the fellows would get kind of jaded and they'd sing that to get themselves aroused again and to get more interested in their work
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They were driving wheelers, driving mules on graded camp.
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Sing the song as the mules were going up and down the grade, loading.
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The name of this song is 'John Henry'
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During the time that I was a water boy, between the age of 15 and 16 on a logging camp railroad. The men during the day would sing this while they were driving spikes.
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Like that.
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56:07
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Well, they'd be double-driving.
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Well, no, they wouldn't begin at the same place all the time. Sometimes they'd begin when he was only six months old or perhaps they would begin by John Henry he had a little woman.
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Oh yes, they had the same tune all the time but different wording. You know. They would make up words all the time.
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Harold B. Hazelhurst sings 'The Captain's Mule'
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Harold B. Hazelhurst sings "John Henry"
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