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In the jook houses and doing any kind of work at all, chopping wood and in the lumber camps and everywhere you find this song. No where you can't find parts of this song, 'Mule on the Mount'.
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The tune is consistent but the verses, you know how things, in every locality you can find some new verses, everywhere.
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Well, there's some place that I haven't heard that same verse 'Mule on the Mount' but there's no place that I don't hear some of the same verses.
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Well, I heard the first verses, I got it in my native village of Eatonville, Florida from George Thomas.
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I'm going to sing, oh I guess, all the tune is the same. I'm going to sing verses from a whole lots of places.
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3:47
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Yes, sometimes they sing 30 and 40 verses.
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It's one of these things that's grown by incremental repetition until perhaps it's the longest song in America.
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3:59
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Zora Neale Hurston laughs [distortion]
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Surely, but I have to give all that other data. My name is Zora Neale Hurston and I'm going to sing a gambling song that I collected at Boston Florida. Turpentine is still there. And the men are playing a game called Georgia Skin. That's the most favorite gambling scheme among the workers of the South. And they lose money on the drop of a card, the fall of a card. And there's a rhythm to the fall of the card and after they get set with the two principles and the other people are called pikers and anybody that wants a special card, he pick it out and they call that, uh, picking one in the rough.
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Well, you see, they take a deck of cards and they shuffle it real good and watch the man to be sure he don't steal nothing. That is, that he don't set a cub. There are four cards of every kind in the deck. And when the card like the card you have selected falls, you lose. Sometimes if you don't watch the dealer he'll put three cards just like his own down at the bottom of the deck so that everybody falls before he does and then he wins all the money.
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9:45
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And he puts it on the table. They don't allow him to hold it because they're afraid he'll steal.
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9:49
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So they, he puts it on the table and he turns over a card.
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9:54
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Card by card and if the card is just like yours, when it falls, you lose. And, uh, so they holler when he gets all set, when the principles has got their cards and the pikers has got theirs and then the man will say he wants them to put the bets down and he'll say 'Put the money on the wood, and make the bet go good and then again, put it insight and save a fight' and so they all get the bets down and then he start and they'll holler, 'Let the deal go down, boys, let the deal go down'. And someone will start singing.
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Uncle Bud is not a work song. It's a sort of social song for amusement and it's so widely distributed, it's growing all the time by incremental repetition, and it is known all over the South. No matter where you go you can find verses of Uncle Bud. And, uh, it's a favorite song. And the men get to working in every kind of work and they just yell down on Uncle Bud and nobody particular leads it. Everybody puts in his verse when he gets ready and Uncle Bud goes and goes and goes.
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Never! It's one of those jook songs and the woman that they sing Uncle Bud in front of is a jook woman.
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Yes, I heard it from women [laughs].
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I know I know some more verses but right off I don't recall.
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Oh the Buford Boat Done Come' is a song from the Geechee country in South Carolina but I heard it down in Florida from a Geechee that moved down in Florida. I forget her name right now.
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16:25
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It's a little dance song with a Charleston rhythm.
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Uh, it's just a dance song and then they dance a Charleston rhythm on it.
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No, group dancing.
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Oh, just any group, any working group, and they'll clap their hands on it and sing.
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I'm a sing a blues, 'Cuz Ever Been Down', and I got it at Palm Beach from a fellow named from Johnny Bardon.
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I got it in 1933.
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Well, it's one of those things just go around all the jooks and what not like that and it goes by incremental repetition, a verse here and a verse there. I don't suppose anybody knows how old it is and when it started.
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I heard 'Halimuhfack' down on the East Coast.
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19:58
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I don't remember. I was in a big crowd and I learned it in the evening during the crowd. And I'm just, don't can't exactly remember who I, who did teach it to me but I learned it from the crowd most exactly more from one.
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I learn them. I just get in the crowd with the people if they singing and I listen as best I can and I start to joining in with a phrase or two and then finally I get so I can sing a verse and then I keep on until I learn all the songs, all the verses, and then I sing them back to the people until they tell me that I can sing them just like them and then I take part and I try it out on different people who already know the song until they are quite satisfied that I know it and then I carry it in my memory.
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Well, that's the same way I got them. I learn the song myself and then I can take it with me wherever I go because I -- [cut off]
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This is a song, uh, called 'Tampa'. I've known it ever since I could remember so I don't know who taught it to me but I heard it sung in my native village when I was a child, not in front of the old folks, of course.
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I've known it all my life. No, it was not confined to children. Everybody sung and danced on it. And you hear a Negro orchestra, a local orchestra, they often played it now, played the tune. They don't sing the words but the tune is one of their favorite dance tunes.
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This one. Some of them call it 'Po Boy' and some of them call it 'Po Gal' but it's a pretty well-distributed blues tune all over the South. The words are not rhymed. It's a typical Negro pattern. The same line repeated three times with a sort of flip line on the end and the change is in the tune rather than the words for the most part.
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I'm - no, not all my life but I kept learning verses as I've gone around.
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How do you want this?
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Mama Don't Want No Peas No Rice' is a song from Nassau in the Bahama islands. They are great song makers and their tunes are decidedly more African than the ones made by the negroes in America. They make songs so rapidly they say 'Anything you do we put you in sing'. And in a few hours they have a song about it. Mama don't want no peas no rice is about a woman who wanted to stay drunk all the time and her husband is really complaining about it. He's explaining to the neighbors what's the matter with his wife and why they don't get along better.
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The one without the words.
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Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Mule on the Mount'
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Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Let the Deal Go Down'
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13:47
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Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Uncle Bud'
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Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Oh the Buford Boat Done Come'
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17:58
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Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Cuz Ever Been Down'
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Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Halimuhfack'
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22:20
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Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Tampa'
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23:59
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Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Po Boy'
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Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Mama Don't Want No Peas No Rice'
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