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Sandy Land

from Bound to Go by Andrew Calhoun

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Adapted from version found in Lomax' American Ballads and Song, 1934; also quoted in Alice Wilkins' slave narrative. from Texas.

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Big yam taters in the sandy land
Sandy bottom, sandy land
Big yam taters in the sandy land
Sandy bottom, sand land

Sift the meal and save the bran
Mighty good livin' in sandy land
Big buck diggin' in the sandy land
Raise big taters in the sandy land

Big yam taters in the sandy land
Sandy bottom, sandy land
Big yam taters in the sandy land
Sandy bottom, sand land

Big fat possum up a simmon tree
Make a big supper for you and me
Hurry up, boys in sandy land
Big fat possum up a simmon tree

Big yam taters in the sandy land
Sandy bottom, sandy land
Big yam taters in the sandy land
Sandy bottom, sand land

Make a good livin' in sandy land
Lots of pretty gals in sandy land
Right and left in sandy land
On to the next in sandy land

Big yam taters in the sandy land
Sandy bottom, sandy land
Big yam taters in the sandy land
Sandy bottom, sand land

Dinah has a wooden leg, so they say
Shake that wooden leg, Dinah-O
Sal has a meat skin stowed away
To grease that wooden leg, so they say

Big yam taters in the sandy land
Sandy bottom, sandy land
Big yam taters in the sandy land
Sandy bottom, sand land

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from Bound to Go, released May 15, 2008
Andrew Calhoun, guitar and vocal
chorus: Tony Dale, Katherine Davis, Runako Robinson, Fred Campeau, Big Llou Johnson, Valerie Carter-Brown
percussion: Tony Dale
fiddle: Bob Soper
trumpet: David Young

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