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DOLLO Sung by: W.P. Detherow Recorded in Batesville, AR, 7/15/52 Click here to listen to the original recording O-hoo-oo (yell-yodel). Dollo day, work or play, O-hoo-oo oo-hoo. Rain or shine, rain or shine, O-hoo-oo. Rain or shine, the money's mine, O-hoo-oo oo-hoo. (Mr. Detherow: "They was the old-fashioned nigger yell that was sung during slave time and for years afterwards, and the white folks took it up. And I'm now seventy-eight years old and I hadn't hollered this for fifty years. When I used to practice it every day, I could holler it in forty different ways. If the young generation now will take this up and learn to sing it, to holler that nigger yell, it starts with a "hoo" instead of a "yo," "y," as the yodel do, and you could make a fine thing of it if you would pick it up. I'm a-gonna play on, gonna play "Johnny Get Your Gun" on the French harp now.") "Johnny, Get Your Gun" (harmonica) "Barlow Knife" (also harmonica) |
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