Alan Lomax Archive | Grant Rogers: When A Fellow Is Out of A Job (1966) @AlanLomaxArchive | Uploaded April 2020 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
A song performed by quarryman, lumberman, fiddler, and folk-singer Grant Rogers, who reported that the melody was his but the lyrics learned from a "colored gentleman" in New Jersey. Recorded by Alan Lomax at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival. Photo from the Grant Rogers Project, an initiative to preserve and promote the expressive culture of the Western Catskill region of New York State. For more about Rogers and the Project, visit grantrogers.org
Ain’t no juice in the earth, no salt in the sea
No ginger in life in this land of the free
And the universe ain’t what it’s cracked up to be
When a fellow is out of a job
A song performed by quarryman, lumberman, fiddler, and folk-singer Grant Rogers, who reported that the melody was his but the lyrics learned from a "colored gentleman" in New Jersey. Recorded by Alan Lomax at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival. Photo from the Grant Rogers Project, an initiative to preserve and promote the expressive culture of the Western Catskill region of New York State. For more about Rogers and the Project, visit grantrogers.org
Ain’t no juice in the earth, no salt in the sea
No ginger in life in this land of the free
And the universe ain’t what it’s cracked up to be
When a fellow is out of a job
