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Old Jim Crow

from Sun to Sun by Alice Gerrard

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    -Standard weight 12” black vinyl
    -Single pocket jacket on 24pt board with matte finish
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This is happening people. Take warning!

lyrics

Thought Jim Crow was on his deathbed
Thought I saw the carver carvin’ his death head
Thought they wrapped him in his winding sheet
But he done crawled out and he’s a-hittin’ the street.

He’s a-creepin around tryin’ to come and get you
Step at a time til you don’t know what hit you
Deceiver, deluder with a killer con
Look away and everything you got’s done gone.

Gather round take warnin’ you mothers
Gather round take warnin’ you fathers
Gather round all my sisters and my brothers
Old Jim Crows a-tryin’ to come back again.

In 1965 we almost got him
Hollered and he cursed but we kicked him to the bottom
2022 he’s crawlin’ out once more
Backhand, gerrymand it’s all the same Jim Crow.

He’s blowin’ cross the land like an old Southeaster
All dressed up like a two-bit preacher
Bony fingers reachin’ for the hard won prize
Tryin to steal it back before our very eyes.

Gather round take warnin’ you mothers
Gather round take warnin’ you fathers
Gather round all my sisters and my brothers
Old Jim Crows a-tryin’ to come back again. 2x
We gotta kick him back into his hole again….

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from Sun to Sun, released October 20, 2023
yrics & music ©2021 Alice Gerrard, Agate Hill Pub. BMI; recorded recorded and mixed by Joseph ‘joebass’ Dejarnette at Studio 808A
Rhythm guitar, lead vocal: Alice Gerrard
Fiddle, harmony vocal: Tatiana Hargreaves
Mandolin, harmony vocal: Reed Stutz
Bass: Hasee Ciaccio
Pedal Steel: DaShawn Hickman

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Alice Gerrard Durham, North Carolina

A singer and songwriter, Alice’s recordings with Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and ’70s influenced a generation of women musicians from Laurie Lewis to the Judds. Nominated for a Grammy in 2015, she was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Assoc. Hall of Fame in 2017. A documentary film about Alice, "You Gave Me a Song" premiered at the Full Frame Independent Film Festival in 2019. ... more

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