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Negro workaday songs

Note 90 — Chapter XIII · JOHN HENRY: EPIC OF THE NEGRO WORKINGMAN

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The music of this version is given in Chapter XIV. For the music of a version of John Hardy, see Campbell and Sharp, English Folk-Songs From The Southern Appalachians, p. 87. There is available also a very good phonograph version of John Henry.

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