Buongiorno AWS.
In allegato vi invio la intera trascrizione del documentario : " African American Work Songs in a Texas Prison " di TOSHI, DANIEL, and PETER SEEGER del 1966, con i relativi testi delle canzoni registrate, ricevuta da : American Folklife Center .
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Canzone che veniva cantata la mattina all'alza bandiera dai componenti della Divisione d'Assalto "Garibaldi-Natisone". Per testimonianza diretta del partigano Walter Zorzenone "Vipera" già componente della stessa Divisione, gli stessi partigiani la chiamavano scherzosamente "il caffè" in quanto era in qualche modo sostitutivo della bevanda logicamente non disponibile (Luciano Marcolini Provenza , segretario ANPI di Cividale del Friuli)

American Folksongs of Protest by John Greenway
Philadelphia - University of Pennsylvania Press - 1953 - p.106
—Library of Congress, Archive of American Folk Song, unpublished collection.

Library of Congress, Archive of AmericanFolk Song, WPA Collection.
American Folksongs of Protest by John Greenway
Philadelphia University Pennsylvania Press 1953
p. 95-96

Da : Slave Songs of the United States.
New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. - Part 1, p.46 , #61

William Francis Allen, (1830-1889), Charles Pickard Ware, (1840-1921), and Lucy McKim Garrison, ( 1842-1877) .

[Verse 7 was added after the Emancipation Proclamation.--J. S. R.]
da: William Francis Allen, (1830-1889), Charles Pickard Ware, (1840-1921), and Lucy McKim Garrison, ( 1842-1877) .

My Father, How Long ? ( Traditional )
Berea Songs of Slavery and Emancipation Ensemble

My Father, How Long? / We’ll Soon Be Free.

Two versions of the same song. First in TW Higginson* Army Life In A Black Regiment (pg. 169 XXXIV)
[For singing this “the negroes had been put in jail in Georgetown, S.C., at the outbreak of the Rebellion. ‘We’ll soon be free’ was too dangerous an assertion, and though the chant was an old one, it was no doubt sung with redoubled emphasis during the new events. ‘De Lord will call us home’ was evidently thought to be a symbolical verse; for, as a little drummer boy explained it to me, showing all his white teeth as he sat in the moonlight by the door of my tent, ‘Dey tink de Lord mean for say de Yankees.’”——T.W.H.]
second version, Slaves Songs of the United States, section IV., #112.
I made a composite lyric; music is based on that provided in Slave Songs... (Continues)

Album : Some Mississippi Sunday Morning
Parchman Prison Prayer - 2023
I GOTTA RUN as sung by L. Stevenson ( age 29 )

Per ulteriori notizie sull’album cui appartiene la traccia si rimanda all’articolo " Parchman Prison Prayer: quando le canzoni nascevano nelle prigioni". Allegato alla canzone “ Since I’ve Laid My Burden Down” ( Mississippi John Hurt ) di AWS.

PRISON WORKSONGS
Recorded by Dr. Harry Oster at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, La. and other locations, mostly in 1959

Let Your Hammer Ring,
Big Louisiana, lead; Willy Rafus, and Arthur Davis.

Originally this song accompanied the driving of spikes into the wooden ties which held railroad tracks in place. The basic tool was a ten-pound hammer with two heads, hardly more than two inches in diameter. The steel-driving man swung freely in a complete circle about his head, then brought the hammer unerringly down on the spike. Since the railroad's disappearance at Angola, the same song has often been sung, as it is here, to facilitate wood-chopping. Unlike many of the group worksongs, "Let Your Hammer Ring" has artistic unity. The subject in this magnificent song swings naturally from the ring of the hammer to ringing a plea to the governor for pardon; the desire for a pardon... (Continues)

Prison Worksongs.

Recorded by Dr. Harry Oster at the Louisiana State Penitentiary , Angola, La. and other locations, mostly in 1959.

Early in the Mornin', Johnny Butler and gang.

[XVI o XVII Secolo / 16th or 17th Century]
Svensk Fornsång / Antico canto svedese / Old Swedish Song / Ancienne chanson suédoise / Ruotsalainen vanha laulu

Si parla in questi giorni delle vie dei canti, cioè dei mondi in cui canti, canzoni, musiche e, non di rado, anche poesie arrivano al nostro sito. Bene, ciò che sto per introdurvi è uno dei casi più tipici, vale a dire il puro purissimo caso innescato dalla curiosità e dalla ricerca in Rete, nonché da un’altra canzone. Proprio oggi, dopo aver inserito una canzone di Mikael Wiehe che parla di verità e menzogna, mi è saltato l’ùzzolo di cercare altre canzoni sul tema. Qui, naturalmente, interviene un po’ la mia “particolarità”, chiamiamola così; con in testa ancora la lingua svedese, che pratico da oltre quarant’anni, non è che mi sia messo a cercare, che so io, “canzoni su verità e giustizia” o “songs on truth and lie”. No, su Google... (Continues)

Missouri State - Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
Fort Smith Jail
Cat. #1388 (MFH #254) - As sung by Joan O'Bryant, Wichita, Kansas

"Roger David Casement (1864 – 1916) was a humanitarian campaigner and an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist. He was a British consul, famous for his reports and activities against human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru and also for his dealings with Germany before Ireland’s Easter Rising in 1916. An Irish nationalist and Parnellite in his youth, he worked in Africa for commercial interests and later in the service of Britain. However, the Boer War and his consular investigation into atrocities in the Congo led Casement to anti-Imperialist and, ultimately, to Irish Republican and separatist political opinions. He sought to obtain German support for a rebellion in Ireland against British rule. Shortly before the Easter Rising, he landed in Ireland and was arrested. He was subsequently convicted and executed by the British for treason. His remains were buried in the yard... (Continues)

Missouri State - Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
Hard Times in Jail
Cat. #0475 (MFH #254) - As sung by Mr. Alford, Delmar, Arkansas on February 2, 1960

[1898]
Versi di anonimo autore popolare che celebrano la resistenza degli abitanti - e delle donne, in particolare - di Chambons, oggi frazione del Comune di Fenestrelle, in Val Chisone, provincia di Torino, al taglio della loro "Serva", il grande bosco di antichissimi larici, ancora oggi per fortuna esistente, grazie a loro.
Testo originale e traduzione italiana reperiti sul n. 5, inverno 2006/2007, della rivista trimestrale "Nunatak. Rivista di storie, culture, lotte della montagna"

La faccio breve e rimando a seguire alle fonti più autorevoli:

"Di là, protette dalla nebbia fittissima, che le rendeva invisibili, si diedero a far rotolare numerosi e grossi macigni giù per la china.
Le autorità mandarono allora un consigliere della borgata a parlamentare, ma le donne lo accolsero a sassate ed egli dovette retrocedere.
Intanto gli operai, visto il pericolo, se la diedero a gambe e non... (Continues)

ANGOLA BOUND - Traditional prison song

Testo trascritto da Azizi Powell

Angola Prison, officially known as the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is one of the largest maximum security prisons in the country. In the 1950s, LSU English professor Dr. Harry Oster recorded a series of music performances by African American prisoners at the infamous facility. The performances, many by prisoners serving life sentences, are full of despair and raw emotion.

Old Alabama / Dan "B.B." Barnes and Group (Axe Song)
Da / From : Alan Lomax – Negro Prison Blues And Songs - 1947
Recorded live at the Mississippi and Louisiana State Penitentiaries
by Alan Lomax

Lawrence Gellert - Negro Songs of Protest.
Published by the American Music League - New York - 1936

Lawrence Gellert -"Negro Songs of Protest"
Published by the American Music League - New York 1936

da
Lawrence Gellert, “Negro Songs of Protest”
Published by the American Music League - New York - 1936

da:
Me and My Captain: Chain Gang Negro Songs of Protest
by Lawrence Gellert, 1939

da :
Negro Songs Of Protest
Collected by Lawrence Gellert
American Music League – New York - 1932

Interpretata da:
- Paul Robeson

Encore un petit Verre de Vin

Chanson française - Encore un petit Verre de Vin – anonyme – circa 1914 – 1915


Dialogue Maïeutique

Voici, Lucien l’âne mon ami, une chanson française populaire, réputée « chanson à boire » - et elle l’est ; mais je suis absolument sûr qu’elle a eu un tout autre sens du côté de Verdun et autres lieux du genre entre 1914 et 1918.

Ah, oui !, s’étonne Lucien l’âne, et comment tu sais ça et comment tu peux en être si sûr.

Tout simplement à cause de ma grand-mère, réplique Marco Valdo M.I., qui la chantait souvent quand j’étais enfant. J’ai encore dans l’oreille ce refrain qu’elle fredonnait comme ça :

« Encore un petit verre de vin,
Pour nous mettre en rou-ou-ou-ou - te ;
Encore un petit verre de vin,
Pour nous mettre en train. »

Oui, dit Lucien l’âne, d’une voix ironique et nettement sceptique, mais encore ?

Oh, Lucien l’âne mon ami, quand elle me chantait... (Continues)

The Anti-Slavery Harp
Compiled by William W. Brown
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848 pag. 40,41

COME JOIN THE ABOLITIONISTS ( Traditional )

AIR — When I can read my title clear

The Anti-Slavery Harp
Compiled by William W. Brown
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848 p. 46

AIR — Ortonville

The Anti-Slavery Harp
Compiled by William W. Brown
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848 pag. 31,32