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CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS (Fields Ward) On the day that ol' Marster died All the slaves we stood and cried. Those agonizing cruel slavery days For they knew we would be sold for the silver and the gold. Those agonizing cruel slavery days Oh, They sold my brother Sam To a man from Alabam' My sister went to Georgia far away. Then they broke my heart for life when they sold my darlin' wife. Those agonizing cruel slavery days [Instrumental Break] In that ol' Virginia State Where they made us separate. Those agonizing cruel slavery days Well they broke the old man's heart when they said we had to part. Those agonizing cruel slavery days When I'm all alone at night and the fire is burning bright. And I think of happy days of long ago When us darkies all would sing and the banjers they would ring. Those days could never come to me no more. [Instrumental Break] When our work on earth is done and we gather one by one. In that land where all tears are washed away There we'll need to part no more on that beautiful golden shore. Where there will never be no cruel slavery days. From The New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters The Galax Way, Heritage Records 1995 'In Those Cruel Slavery Days' is an original composition by Fields Ward of Grays on County, Virginia. I have a 1929 recording of it on 'Fields Ward and His Buck Mountain Band' (Historical LP 8001). As a result of a disagreement with the reco rd company (Gennet), none of the recordings from the 1929 session were issued on 78. PS @slave @American Filename[ CRUELSLA JAB Apr01  8note Sheet |
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