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Lewis, Vada

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voice Collected by Parler Mrs. Vada Lewis and O'Bryant West Fork, Ark. July 22, 1958 Reel 358, Item 12 The First Banjo This is the well-known poem by Irwin Russell. Mrs Lewis sings it almost exactly as written, except that she has lost most of the Negro dialect, and there are a few unimportant verbal changes, the result of having memorized it a long time ag. Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation.
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1958 07 22
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Ozark Folksong Collection

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University of Arkansas

Keywords

  1. A Capella Singing
  2. Musical Instruments

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