![]() ![]() Dated August 3, 1923, the requested additional verses. Gordon, conducting the column 'Old Songs That Men Have Sung' in Adventure magazine. ^ Cohen, Long Steel Rail, p 479: 'The earliest reference to the song I have found was in a letter to Robert W. ![]() ^ Howard Odom, 'Folk-Song and Folk-Poetry As Found in the Secular Songs of the Southern Negroes', in Journal of American Folk-Lore, Ed. ![]() One stanza fragment which relates to the song was noted by Howard Odum about 1905 and published in his 1911 collection.' 247: 'An example of this form of nodal ballad is The Midnight Special, a prison song known in penitentiaries in many parts of the South. 71: 'Sung in prisons all over the South, this song is probably of white origin.'
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