Negro Workaday Songs (1926)

Howard W. Odum and Guy B. Johnson's sociological folk-song collection documents African American work songs, blues, spirituals, and related oral traditions in the American South. (Open Library)

Watches

Elgin watch: One collected blues text names an Elgin watch as a personal possession in the singer's refrain.

Source text: "I got Elgin watch / Made on yo' frame." (Project Gutenberg ebook 69378, "Florida Blues")