<emph>It's Moving Day:</emph> Electronic Edition. Performed by Charlie Poole Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title. Text transcribed by Monique Prince Text encoded by Elizabeth S. Wright First edition, 2003 ca. K Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003.

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 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)

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.

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 Library of Congress Subject Headings English 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. 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 scanning the text. It's Moving Day 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