home of Annie Williams

Lomax and Williams discuss what she’s going to sing; he cautions against walking across the floor while the disc is being cut.

Ms. Williams says she learned the song from her grandmother. She sings a fragment of “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah” that she heard from her. Discusses hearing her first hymn, “Am I Born to Die,” at age five from her aunt.

Ms. Williams discusses the various ways of getting happy and being moved by the spirit. She then addresses some younger visitors, telling them they can come back and perform song ring plays and reels for Lomax and Jones.

Ms. Williams discusses her family’s singing – both jubilee and Watts hymns – and her education and that of her children. She sings fragments of “Rock Daniel,” “Chariot’s Coming (Jubilee),” “Mockingbird.”

The accompanying voices are presumably of her younger family members present.

Brief discussion follows.

Brief discussion follows. Identified on AFS card as “Taint Gonna Rain No Mo’.”

Demonstration of game follows.

Mason sings the song unaccompanied then demonstrates the game.

First name unknown.

Followed by discussion (with John Cameron) about shouting and getting happy in church. Lomax attempts to coax Ms. Williams to talk about the sanctified church, the “new religion,” but she doesn’t recognize it as such. Discussion continues about singing at work and cotton picking.

Ms. Williams tells Lomax this song is a “hally” (hallelujah). “Shout if you want on it. Pat your hands on it.”

Others join in halfway through the singing. “Assisted in prayer by Sister Williams,” Cameron jokes at the end.

Presumably the fight song from a local high school.

Likely other girls are involved who were unidentified. (A Ruby is addressed before the singing.)

Identified on AFS card as “Hiding Go Seek.” This band includes several hide-and-seek counting-off rhymes, as well as a “poem” (“Hush Little T-Model, Don’t You Cry). Each of the girls introduces herself before their recitation.

Identified on AFS card as “Hiding Go Seek.” These are counting-off/counting-out rhymes: “Cornbread Rough,” “Engine, Engine Number 9,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

Identified on AFS card as “Hiding Go Seek.”

Followed by explanation of song, and presumably the source, last name Walker. Identified on AFS card as “a local parody” (of “It Just Suits Me”).

Title given is that on AFS card. Girls sing “Jump up the rabbit.”