- Although Geraldine Johnson's notes indicate that this interview was cut short due to Mrs. Shockley's need to leave to take care of her mother, they nonetheless covered a lot of useful information within the limited time. Mrs. Shockley learned to…
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.