Ain't I Right?

DESCRIPTION: Leader lines out "Massa killed the big old bull (duck)." All sing "Give us meat to pull (bone to suck)." Then call "Ain't I right" and response a variation on "Ain't I right," repeated. Then "all massa done for me Gimme little piece of meat."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (LomaxCD1713)
KEYWORDS: food nonballad worksong
FOUND IN: US(SE)
Roud #21447
RECORDINGS:
Henry Morrison and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, "Ain't I Right?" (on LomaxCD1713)
NOTES [27 words]: Alan Lomax and Anna L. Chairetakis, liner notes for LomaxCD1713 have this as a "bitter work song commenting on the niggardly ways of white plantation owners." - BS
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