ALMOST DONE - Lead Belly & The Golden Gate Quartet - 1940
(WORKER 1 [spoken])
Say, what are we gonna do with all this wood now we got it laying around?
(WORKER 2)
What we gonna do? We gotta git round with these ol’ cross-cut saws.
(WORKER 3)
Four foot long.
(WORKER 1)
One real man on each end.
(WORKER 2
[inaudible]) does that ol’ saw talk
(WORKER 3)
Spitin’ dus’!
(WORKER 1)
Call them yallow women, little buddy, to run down here and help us out.
(LEAD BELLY [singing])
On a Monday, I was arrested
(QUARTET)
“che! che!” (sound simulating a saw)
On a Tuesday I was locked up in jail
che! che! che!
On a Wednesday, my trial was attested
che! che! che!
On a Thursday, nobody wouldn’t go my bail
che! che! che!
(ALL [singing])
Yes, I’m all almost done
Yes, I’m all almost done
Yes, I’m all almost done
An’ I ain’t gonna ring them yallow women’s
do’ bells.
(LEAD BELLY)
Take these stripes, stripes from ‘round my shoulder
Take these chains, chains from round my leg
Lawd, these stripes, stripes they sho’ don’t worry me
But these chains, chains is ‘bout to kill me dead
(ALL)
Yes, I’m all almost done
Yes, I’m all almost done
Yes, I’m all almost done
An’ I ain’t gonna ring them yallow women’s
do’ bells
Almost Done
Anonymous
Contributed by Pluck - 2026/7/19 - 18:04
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Fonte di testo e traccia musicale : Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s.
Jonathan W. Stone - 2020-02-20
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