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This song is sung from the standpoint of a man who has one more day to go on a ninety day jail sentence. He is working on a road gang, the direct descendent of the infamous chain gangs.
This song owes a lot to the genre of Blues known as Prison Work Songs, not just in the lyrics, which are a rhyming narrative, but in the musical arrangement, too. The rhythmic, repetitive melody mimics the call and response style of a lot of work songs, with the guitar making the call and the response, in a higher pitched, quieter repetition of notes. You don't have to know all that to enjoy the music.

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One More Day
T R Munday
Copyright 2018

One more day in Jefferson County
One more day on Highway 9
One more day in Jefferson County
One more day, I've done my time

Cuttin' brush along the highway
Ain't no shade but lots of sun
Cuttin' brush along the highway
One more day, my time is done

Ninety days for being vagrant
And I'm done with eighty nine
Ninety days for being vagrant
Ninety days of county time

Lord I'd like a drink of water
But that fella don't come round
Lord I'd like a drink of water
Mouth is dry as dusty ground

Walkin' boss says break for dinner
When we hit the county line
Walkin' boss say break for dinner
Then we come back the other side

Raise this hook and swing it downward
Raise this hook another time
Raise this hook and swing it downward
One step closer, that county line

One more day in Jefferson County
One more day on Highway 9
One more day in Jefferson County
One more day, I've done my time

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from Mid​-​Continental Blues, released August 1, 2018
photo: Wikimedia Commons or other historical public domain source

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T. R. Munday Chicago, Illinois

If you enjoy the Blues, check out Anni Piper's vocals and her great bass guitar: annipiper.bandcamp.com

T. R. Munday resides in Northern Illinois, by way of Texas and California.
Musically, he has been most influenced by Mississippi John Hurt, Johnny Cash, and a whole host of Mississippi Delta and Chicago Bluesmen. ... more

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