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Variants of this song have been sung for seventy years
on westering high roads in America. Since 1933 it has
became the song of the migrant families who were tractered out of Texas, dusted out of Oklahoma and flooded out of Arkansas.

Music
Field recordings
Songs

Todd, Charles L., 1911-2004 (Collector)
Sonkin, Robert, 1910-1980 (Collector)
Stone, Gussie Ward (Performer)

- Arvin FSA Camp
- Music
- Field recordings
- Songs
- California -- Arvin

From movie "Grapes of Wrath" King Family (L-R)f Mr. King, Syd Thompson (friend), Charles, Harlen & Billy (handwritten on reverse)

Intermission during square dance; note the sweated shirt of the host.

Saturday night dance. FSA Tulare Migrant Camp. Visalia, California.

Couples square dancing, note the period dress as well as the venue, with an emphasis on the wood floor.

Walter Harp, square dance calling; Charles Cook, fiddle; Charles Powell, guitar; Bennie Lindsay, guitar; and Junior Lindsay, harmonica.