Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Day 229 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
Sandburg writes: "The toiling black on railroad, levee, dump, his knees in mud, and thinking of his "luluh", begs cap'n (boss or gang foreman) to have the time of day correct:
When you see me coming
Hoist your windows high;
When you see me leaving
Hang down your heads and cry,
Hang down your heads and cry.
We have this text and tune from a notable treatise on South Texas Negro Work-Songs by Gates Thomas in No. 5 of Publications of the Texas Folk Lore Society."
Day 229 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
Sandburg writes: "The toiling black on railroad, levee, dump, his knees in mud, and thinking of his "luluh", begs cap'n (boss or gang foreman) to have the time of day correct:
When you see me coming
Hoist your windows high;
When you see me leaving
Hang down your heads and cry,
Hang down your heads and cry.
We have this text and tune from a notable treatise on South Texas Negro Work-Songs by Gates Thomas in No. 5 of Publications of the Texas Folk Lore Society."
