It's Moving Day:
Electronic Edition.

Performed by Charlie Poole

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Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.

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Text transcribed by Monique Prince
Text encoded by Elizabeth S. Wright
First edition, 2003
ca. 5K
Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
2003.

Source Description:

(song title) It's Moving Day
Performed by Charlie Poole 1 p.

Call number FC-344 General Collection/Sound Recordings (#30001), (Southern Folklife Collection, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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        The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South.
        These song lyrics are transcribed from a recording by Charlie Poole held from the Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These lyrics accompany a digital audio file.
        The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 4 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
        All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
        All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as ' and ' respectively.
        Spell-check and verification made against printed text using Author/Editor (SoftQuad) and Microsoft Word spell check programs.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings

Languages Used:

• English

LC Subject Headings:

• Ballads, English -- United States -- Texts.
• Ballads, English -- United States.
• Folk songs, English -- United States -- Texts.
• Folk songs, English -- United States.
• Textile factories -- North Carolina -- Songs and music.

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Revision History:

• 2005-02-21,
  Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther
  revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition.
  
  
• 2003-09-11,
  Elizabeth S. Wright,
  finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.
  
  
• 2003-08-21,
  Elizabeth S. Wright
  finished TEI/SGML encoding
  
  
• 2003-07-17,
  Monique Prince
  finished transcribing the text.
  
  

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It's Moving Day

Audio File (MP3, ca. 3.1MB, 3:23 min)

                         Landlord said this morning to me
                         'Give me your key, this lot ain't free
                         I can't get no rent out of you
                         Pack up your act and skidoo, you'
                         'I've been waiting till my Bill comes home
                         He's my honey from the honeycomb
                         He'll have money for he told me so this morning'

                         Because it's moving day, moving day
                         I rip the carpet up off the floor
                         Load your oil stove and out the door
                         Because it's moving day
                         Pack your bed quilts and get away
                         If you spend every cent you can live out in a tent
                         It's moving day

                         Moving day, moving day
                         I rip the carpet up off the floor
                         Load your oil stove and out the door
                         Because it's moving day
                         Pack your bed quilts and get away
                         If you spend every cent you can live out in a tent
                         It's moving day

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