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Man and woman singing with instruments

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Men singing

ZNH sings 'Gonna See My Long-Haired Babe'

ZNH chants 'Let's Shake It'

ZNH chants 'Let's Shake It'

ZNH chants 'That Old Black Gal'

ZNH sings 'Shove it over'

ZNH singing low.

Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Mule on the Mount'

Uh, this story happened during the fall of 1898 upon a small island off of the coast of Georgia

Where the sea level was very low. Came a hurricane which covered the whole island in several feet of water and most of the natives had to swim around in their homes.

One particular instance which calls to mind is that of an old negrum owned by one of the early rice planters.

He tells: Yes sir, we were swimming around in that water trying to find a shallow place when we seen some of them pretty long neck bottles floating around. Look like them water in 'em.

So we drink some and before long we was glad to have some been come because it sure made us feel good. Sure wish I could have some of that stuff now. Boss, I believe that been shampoo.

Further on the flooded plantation, the boss paddled his canoe up to the loft of the barn.

There sat another of his n-- with a big stick in his hand as if he was going to strike something. Even that the hole in the side of the barn where the [inaudible] was stored had looked as if a board had been torn off. He glanced over in the corner and there'n a pile of dead coons which looked like a hundred or so.

As the boss approached, he said, 'By grade, Tom, what have you been doing here?' He replied in a dramatic voice, 'Boss, I's just been praying all the time, how's that good for the ole master to come take this water back where it belong so we's could get back to work. Boss, I've been a praying every chance that I'm got to liberation.' 'Well, from the looks of the coons you killed, you didn't have time to pray much, Tom'. 'Mass Donald, I wouldn't have killed 'em but they kept barring me from praying all the time.'

Another story I told of an old native of Georgia came to Florida in the nineties to seek adventure. This old cracker who really lived in the backwoods had a name of being the biggest liar in the country.

He said me and my son Israel, we went down to Floridy to pick oranges. Huh. They grow so big you can fill a water bucket full with four of 'em.

The alligators, they were so tame, and I bet we had about a hundred and fifty, every day we went down to the palmetto patch and whistled and they would come running under the palmetto patch at me and crawl up on my shoulders and talk to me.

Why down there we cut down the palmetto trees to make fence posts and they is the best you ever seen. They would last a hundred years. I know because I tried them twice.

Well, you see, they take a deck of cards and they shuffle it real good and watch the man to be sure he don't steal nothing. That is, that he don't set a cub. There are four cards of every kind in the deck. And when the card like the card you have selected falls, you lose. Sometimes if you don't watch the dealer he'll put three cards just like his own down at the bottom of the deck so that everybody falls before he does and then he wins all the money.

And he puts it on the table. They don't allow him to hold it because they're afraid he'll steal.

So they, he puts it on the table and he turns over a card.

Card by card and if the card is just like yours, when it falls, you lose. And, uh, so they holler when he gets all set, when the principles has got their cards and the pikers has got theirs and then the man will say he wants them to put the bets down and he'll say 'Put the money on the wood, and make the bet go good and then again, put it insight and save a fight' and so they all get the bets down and then he start and they'll holler, 'Let the deal go down, boys, let the deal go down'. And someone will start singing.

Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Let the Deal Go Down'

Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Uncle Bud'

Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Oh the Buford Boat Done Come'

Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Cuz Ever Been Down'

Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Halimuhfack'

Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Tampa'

Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Po Boy'

Zora Neale Hurston sings 'Mama Don't Want No Peas No Rice'

H. W. Stuckey sings

H. W. Stuckey sings

H. W. Stuckey sings

H. W. Stuckey sings

H. W. Stuckey sings

H. W. Stuckey sings

H. W. Stuckey sings

H. W. Stuckey sings

H. W. Stuckey sings

Irene Jackson sings

Irene Jackson sings

Irene Jackson chants

Alabama Singleton sings

A ring play, yes. When you say 'go all around the maypole' you'll join hands and be going around the ring and then you're showing your emotion and doing a little dance.

In the middle of the ring and the rest of the children would be patting their hands.

Well, when you throw around the maypole you doesn't pat because your hands be joined then.

Alabama Singleton sings

Alabama Singleton sings

Alabama Singleton sings

Maggie Fulton chants a game

Well, the children would act as if they were flying like the turkeys.

So they start off playing all over so if you're standing around and one would say 'Little girl, little girl have you been to the barn' and everyone said, yes Ma'am. And they answered 'Did you see my turkey?'' You say 'Yes Ma'am'. And you say 'How high did it fly' and you say 'So high' and then everybody stretched their arms up as if it was the wingspan.

Maggie Fulton sings a song

Maggie Fulton demonstrates a game

Harold B. Hazelhurst sings 'The Captain's Mule'

Harold B. Hazelhurst sings John Henry

Oh, shucks. There'd be motion of their feets. [Laughter]