“Don't You Hear My Hammer Ringing”
Description
Chain-gang work song, with chorus line, "Oh don't you hear my hammer ringing?" The song complains about present work conditions, describes the career of Noah, and talks about his hammer
Notes
Courlander gives this as a single song, but it appears to me to be a combination of other songs. Very likely the gang leader just assembled the text from other songs (with a little glue of his own); it probably does not exist in tradition as an entity. - RBW
Cross references
- cf. "Take This Hammer" (lyrics)
- cf. "Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep" (lyrics)
- cf. "Oh, Lord, How Long" (lyrics)
- cf. "Hammer Ring"
References
- Courlander-NFM, pp. 99-101, (no title) (1 text)
- BI, CNFM099