Another Man Done Gone
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Lyrics:
Another man done gone.
Another man done gone
from the county farm.
Another man done gone.
He had a long chain on.
He had a long chain on,
had a long chain on.
Another man done gone.
I didn't know his name
I didn't know his name,
they did him just the same.
Another man done gone.
He killed another man.
He killed another man,
from the county farm.
Another man done gone.
I don't know where he's gone.
I don't know where he's gone,
don't know where he's gone.
Another man done gone.
Another man done gone.
Another man done gone
from the county farm.
Another man done gone.
"Another Man Done Gone" is a traditional African-American prison farm work song
or blues.
It was collected by Alan Lomax from Vera Hall in Livingston, AL in 1940.
Repression of African Americans didn’t stop at the end of the Civil War, and
prisons and chain gangs were full of black people arrested for major or,
sometimes, minor violations. There were a lot of escape attempts, some successful,
some less so. This song tells of the death of a man on one of those chain gangs.
Folklorist Alan Lomax recorded Vera Hall singing “Another Man Done Gone” in 1940
and praised her as having the "loveliest untrained voice [he] had ever recorded."
It was recorded by
Vera Hall (1942),
Odetta (1957),
Harry Belafonte (1960),
Leon Bibb (1960),
Pete Seeger (1962),
Johnny Cash with The Carter Family (1963),
John Mayall with Eric Clapton (1966),
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1999),
Carolina Chocolate Drops (2007),
The Giddens Sisters (2012) and many others.
It was printed in
Lomax's The Folk Songs of North America (1960),
Lomax and Lomax's Folk Song U.S.A. (1947),
Scott's The Ballad of America (1966) and
Silber and Silber's Folksinger’s Wordbook (1973).
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