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Arkansas Chant
Poem: Sterling A. Brown. Music Cornelius Eday

The devil is a rider
In slouch hat and boots
Gun by his side
Bull whip in his hand.
The devil is a rider;
The rider is a devil
Riding his buck stallion
Over the land.

The poor-white and nigger sinners
Are low-down in the valley.
The rider is a devil
And there’s hell to pay.
The devil is a rider,
God may be the owner,
But he’s rich and forgetful,
And far away.

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from THE STERLING BROWN PROJECT: CORNELIUS EADY & ROUGH MAGIC with Rowan Ricardo Phillips, released January 18, 2021
CE: Vocal
Robin Messing: Vocal
Charlie Rauh: Electric Guitar
Concetta Abbate: Violin
Emma Alabaster: Bass
Leo Ferguson: Drums, percussion and piano

Track Arranged by Rough Magic

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Cornelius Eady New York, New York

Cornelius Eady is the author of 8 books of poetry, lives in NYC and is the co-founder of Cave Canem. The band Rough Magic came out of the sessions for his CD/Chapbook BOOK OF HOOKS. (Kattywompus Press, Jan. 2013)

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