Water Boy Drowned in the Mobile Bay

DESCRIPTION: "Did you hear about, oh yeah! the water boy drownded... In Mobile Bay." "They dropped him, oh yeah! in forty feet of water... Over his head." "Did you hear about... Lu Etta Water ... The poor girl dead." She died at home of tuberculosis.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1968 (USMississippi01)
KEYWORDS: death drowning nonballad worksong disease
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Inmates at Parchman Farm, "Water Boy Drowned in the Mobile Bay" (on USMississippi01)
NOTES [53 words]: The form of the Parchman Farm recording is a call-and-response track-lining work song. The form is an aab blues. In each verse the first line call is broken in half by responses "o yeah!" The second line repeats the first. The first half call of the third line gets the response of "Lord, Lord" and the repeated call. - BS
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