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Hell Bound for Alabama
Old-Time, Breakdown, Georgia, Alabama.
ARTIST: Okeh 45159 (78 RPM), Fiddlin' John Carson (1927).
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Early 1900’s
RECORDING INFO: Cahan, Andy; Laura Fishleder and Lisa Ornstein. Ship in the Clouds, Folkways FTS 31062, LP, cut# 13; Carson, Fiddlin' John. Fiddlin' John Carson. Vol 4, Document DOCD 8017, CD (1997), cut#19 (Hell Bound for Alabama); Carson, Fiddlin' John;'s Virginia Reelers. Fiddlers Convention in Mountain City, Tennessee, County 525, LP (1972), cut# 7; Plank Road String Band. Southern Clawhammer, Kicking Mule KM 213, Cas (1978), cut#B.08 (Hell Bound for Alabama)
OTHER NAMES: “Ride Old Buck to the Water (Gid Tanner);” "Hell Broke Loose in Georgia;" "There's No Hell in Georgia;"
SOURCES: Meade; Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc;
NOTES: In the repertoires of Fiddlin' John Carson; Murray Kellner (The Fiddlin' Cowbow) Luke Highnight (& His Ozark Strutters) and Gid Tanner. "Some of the rhymes Carson used for the tune were taken from the song "I'd Rather Be a *Black Man than a Poor White Man" (See Talley {Ed. Wolfe}, 1991, pgs. 36-37)." (Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc). See also "I'd Rather Be a *Black Man than a Poor White Man" in this collection for additional lyrics.
LYRICS:
My name's Ran, I wuks in de san',
But I'd druther be a *black man dan a po' white man. (Talley)
*edited for racial content
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