SongEra: Jim Crow

Old Dollar Mamie

Name: Old Dollar Mamie
Description: A traditional African-American prison work song (also "Dollar Mamie"), first documented in Alan Lomax's 1947 Parchman Farm field recording and recorded…

c. 1947(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: prison work song

A traditional African-American prison work song (also "Dollar Mamie"), first documented in Alan Lomax's 1947 Parchman Farm field recording and recorded again at Parchman in 1959.

Sources & citations

1.archive.culturalequity.orgwebsite
2.archive.culturalequity.orgwebsite
3.egrove.olemiss.eduwebsite
4.pancocojams.blogspot.comwebsite