Waterboy (song)
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"Waterboy" is an American traditional folk song. It is built on the call "Water boy, where are you hidin'?" The call is one of several water boy calls in cotton plantation folk tradition.
Cover of sheet music to a piano version of the "negro convict song" arranged by Avery Robinson for singer Roland Hayes, 1950
Odetta
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Odetta Holmes, known mononymously as Odetta, was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement", her musical repertoire consisted largely of Ameri
Waterboy (song)
…Odetta & Larry - The Tin Angel (1954) Odetta - My Eyes Have Seen (1959): Song: "I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain/Water Boy". Odetta performed "Waterboy" regularly, and it appears on several of…
Odetta in 1961
Odetta at the Burg Waldeck-Festival, West Germany, 1968
Odetta performing in 2006
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Entertainment, Vocalist Odetta.) - NARA - 542020