“Every Mail Day”

Description

"Every mail day (x2) I gets a letter... O Son, come home, Lord, Lord, Son come home." "I couldn't read it... to keep from crying... to save my soul"

Supplemental text

Every Mail Day
  Partial text(s)

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Mail Day

From Anne Warner, Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne &
Frank Warner Collection, #173, p. 391. From the singing of
J. B Sutton of North Carolina, 1941.

Every mail day,
Every main day,
I gets a letter.
Oh, every mail day, ail day,
I gets a letter
O Son, come home!
Lord, Lord, Son come home.

(1 additional stanza)

Recordings

• Adie Corbin, "Every Mail Day" (AFS 178 B1, 1933)
• (Elder) Sykes Jones, "Every Mail Day" (AFS 364 B, 1935)
• J. B. Sutton, "Mail Day Blues" [excerp?t] (on USWarnerColl01)
• Unidentified convict, Parchman Farm, Mississippi, "Every Mail Day" (AFS 1862 B, 1937)

References

1. Warner 173, "Mail Day" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. ST Wa173 (Partial)
3. Roud #7490
4. BI, Wa173