Parallel Anthology Track 79

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Icon In Copyright.jpg Track 79: Uncle Dave Macon: Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line   Brunswick 292; Recorded in Chicago, 25.7.1928


No image of record label available. Harry Smith's Anthology booklet assigns authorship to "Macon".


According to wikipedia, Macon died in 1952, meaning that this composition is in copyright until 1st January 2023.


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Alternative Versions

Roll Down the Line by Pete Seeger    album released in 1957: Spotify
 
Liner notes for this album date this song to a violent industrial dispute in the 1890s in the town of Coal Creek, Tennessee, saying that "it is a miner's version of a song which
was sung by Negro convicts who were working in the mine" and that Macon "was a young man at the time of the Coal Creek rebellion and probably learned the song first hand". No claim
to arrangement credit for Seeger is made.