SongEra: Jim Crow

Shorty George

Name: Shorty George
Description: A traditional African-American Texas prison work song named for the short train that carried visitors away from the prison farm; first documented in a…

c. 1933(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: prison work song

A traditional African-American Texas prison work song named for the short train that carried visitors away from the prison farm; first documented in a Lomax field recording of James "Iron Head" Baker in 1933.

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