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I Caught the Sheriff (2:23): Old time midwives didn’t just deliver babies. Eastern Kentucky midwife Aunt Molly Jackson robbed a company store at gunpoint to feed children who were starving after the coal company locked out the miners, and there was no work to be found.

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I CAUGHT THE SHERIFF

Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel
That’s how it’s written down
Well, I delivered half
Of all the people in this town
Miners and mill hands
Bankers and bums
I birthed those babies
Caught ‘em every one

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Riding by the tipple
Past the one room school
Here comes the granny woman
On her flop-eared mule
Naked as a jaybird
Perfect as a pearl
Hello, child
Welcome to the world

The sheriff caught my cousin
Running off that corn
And I caught the sheriff
On the day that he was born
He popped out so fast
No time to take my stand
I just stretched over
And caught him with one hand

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Late in the evening
Early in the night
I’ve delivered babies
Brown and black and white
Every shape and size
Every shade and hue
The Lord delivered Daniel
Daughter, I’ll deliver you

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Saro Lynch-Thomason North Carolina

Saro Lynch-Thomason is a ballad singer, song writer, folklorist, documentarian, and illustrator from Asheville, North Carolina. Her passion for traditional music, people’s struggles and Appalachian traditions calls her to perform, teach and produce media that tell the stories and songs of America’s social history. ... more

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