Don't Talk About It

DESCRIPTION: "July the redbird (hah!), redbird, August the fly (hah!)...." "Now don't talk about it (huh!), Bout it, if you do I'll cry." The singer wakes up with shovel and hammer by his side. The food is cabbage, beans, corn bread.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1934 (Lomax/Lomax-OurSingingCountry)
KEYWORDS: prison work food
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lomax/Lomax-OurSingingCountry, pp. 382-383, "Don't Talk About It" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15588
RECORDINGS:
John Williams and Group, "On a Monday" (on VaWork)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Almost Done" (verse)
File: LoSi382

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