Fieldwork Footage | movie | 1928 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charl | dG1fY2hmUTQ0ZzJnMUk

Transcript

00:00When I get in the Illinois, I'm going to spread the news about the Florida boys.

00:20Shove it over, hey, hey, hey, you'll catch a lioness.

00:26Oh, shakalaka, laka, laka, laka, laka, can't you move it?

00:33Hey, hey, hey, can't you try?

00:36Eat him up whiskers, he won't shave.

00:40Eat him up body lights, he won't bathe.

00:43Shove it over, hey, hey, hey, can't you line it?

00:48Oh, shakalaka, laka, laka, laka, laka, can't you move it?

00:54Hey, hey, hey, can't you try?

00:58Oh, the rooster, chew tobacco, the hen dip will snuff.

01:02The biddy can't do it, but he struts his stalk.

01:06Shove it over, hey, hey, hey, you'll catch a lioness.

01:11Oh, shakalaka, laka, laka, laka, laka, laka, ah, can't you move it?

01:17Hey, hey, hey, can't you try?

01:19Uh, Zora Hurston speaking.

01:23Uh, in all the big work camps, sawmills and termtown steel and road camps and whatnot,

01:29they have a man to go around and wake up to camp.

01:31And he has various chants and hollers to wake him up,

01:34and sometimes he makes him up as he goes along.

01:37Well, I heard these at Loughman, a big sawmill down in the state in Polk County.

01:41Wake up, bullies, get on the rock.

01:50Ten quiet day, when it's five o'clock.

01:54Come on up on that cover, bullies.

01:55Come on up on that cover, unless you want some trouble with the walker.

01:58Come on.

02:00Wake up, Jacob.

02:04Days are breaking.

02:06Get your whole cake of bacon in your shirt till she can.

02:09Wake up, bullies, pull for the show.

02:18Big crowd game on the other side, now I know you want to go.

02:25Wake up, bullies, pull for the show.

02:31Big crowd game on the other side, now I know you want to go.

02:34Hey, you rowdy mule skinners, you better learn how to skin.

02:42Kevin got a new job and they need a hundred men.

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