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Nelson​’​s Blood

from Shower Chanteys by Chris Maden

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Somewhat surprisingly, while Hugill has a lot to say about the variations recorded, he only gives a single variation, the “wouldn’t do us any harm” verses I use here. The (presumably) older spiritual verses he notes as reported, but doesn’t give. I like to sing them sometimes, but the ones I do here are more common at chantey sings. Hugill notes its use as a revivalist tune, noted in American Negro Folk-Songs, as a corn-shucking or log-rolling song among white people in the Dismal Swamp in North Carolina, and as a baseball pep song at Trinity College.

… for more notes, see music.maden.org/index.php?title=Nelson%E2%80%99s_Blood

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from Shower Chanteys, released October 1, 2018

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