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All around the water tank, Waiting for a train,
No full textvoice; guitarsCollected by George Lay, Jr. Mr. George Lay
Heber Springs, Ark. January 1959
Reel 361, Item 3
(All Around the Water Tank)
"This as another one we picked up in the jungle. After the mulligan had been cooked in the cans at hight, we'd sit around and sing these old songs."
All around the water tank,
Waiting for a train,
I'm a thousand miles away from home,
Just sleeping in the rain.
Well I walked up to the brakie And I handed him a line of talk;
He said, "If you've got money, I'll see that you don't walk.
Well I haven't got a nickel,
Not a penny can I show,
"Get off, get off, you railroad bum,"
And he slammed the boxcar door.
Well they put me off in Texas,
A state I dearly love,
The wide-open spaces all around me,
The moon and the stars above.
Nobody seems to want me,
Or to lend me a helping hand,
I'm a thousand miles away from home Just waiting for a train.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Just out of San Francisco, One cold December day,
No full textvoice; guitarsCollected by George Lay, Jr. Mr. George Lay
Heber Springs, Ark. January 1959
Reel 361, Item 2
(The Dying Hobo)
"I picked up this song, along with several others, in the hobo jungles, along in the late thirties. I was trying to scrounge around over the country and find a dime — which was hard to do, and a lot harder to keep it after you fould it. There was a lot of guys along there that the ink was still wet on their diplomas from their colleges, and there was a lot of guys that had never been inside of a school. About the only entertainment we ahd was these old songs at night. I don't know what the name of this one is, but it's one that they used to sing a lot."
Just out of San Francisco,
One cold December day,
Beneath an east-bound boxcar A dying hobo lay.
His comrade stood beside him,
His hat was in his hand,
For he knew that his old buddy Was going to a distant land.
Go tell my darling sister,
No longer will I roam,
I've gaught an east-bound boxcar And I'm on my way back home.
I'm going to a better land
Where you don't have to change your socks,
Where beer and foam
Come trickling down the rocks.
The dying hobo closed his eyes And drew his last breath,
His comrade stole his coat and hat And kep' on heading west.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
I'm sure you've heard my story From the Kanney Wagner song,
No full textvoiceCollected by George Lay, Jr. Mr. George Lay
Heber Springs, Ark. January 1959
Reel 361, Item 4
The Kenney Wagner Song
I'm sure you've heard my story From the Kanney Wagner song,
How down in Mississippi I took a road that's wrong.
It was down in Mississippi That I murdered my first man,
The sheriff there at Leakesville,
And justice took its stand.
Then I went from Mississippi To the state of Tennessee,
Two men went down before me And they took my liberty.
And I wandered through the country But I never could find rest,
Till I went to Texarkana Away out in the West.
Again I started drinking And again I pulled my gun,
And within a single moment The deadly work was done.
The sheriff was a woman,
But she got the drop on me;
I quit the game and surrendered,
Gave up my liberty.
I am now in Mississippi,
And I soon shall know my state;
I'm waiting for my trial,
But I do not dread my fate.
For still the sun is shining And the sky is blue and fair,
And my heart it is not pining For I do not fear the chair.
I've had my worldly pleasures,
I've faced many a man,
But it was down in Texarkana Where a woman called my hand.
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Young men, young men, take warning, Oh, take my good advice,
If you start the game and last long, You must surely pay the price.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Lay, George; Interview and Materials
No full textRoster Number: 638. Picture Location: Box 7 Folder 3. Interview Location: Box 2 Folder 6
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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