SongEra: Jim Crow
The Grey Goose
c. 1933(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)
- Artist
- Traditional
- Genre
- prison work song
A traditional African-American folk / work song (Roud 11684) telling of a preacher who cannot kill an indestructible goose; first documented in a December 1933 Lomax field recording of James "Iron Head" Baker at a Texas prison farm.
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