"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).