"Get off the track" - Hutchinson Family Singers, 1844

The Hutchinson Family Singers were a very popular American singing group that performed hormonised songs from the 1930s through to the 1890s. The Group become strong advocates of slavery abolition, temperance, women's suffrage and other social causes.

[@markbergman]

Thanks for sharing! Quick clarification: the dates this group performed were the 1830s - 1890s.

[@SteveonLI]

the hutchinsons need to be remembered!

[@SpeegBJ]

Melody of 'Old Dan Tucker'.

[@LongfellowChorus]

"Get off the track" in the final verse should be shouted, not sung, as quoted in "Excelsior: Journals of the Hutchinson Family Singers," Dale Cockrell, Pendragon Press, 1989: "And when they came to the chorus-cry...the way they cried 'Get off the track'...they forgot the harmony and shouted after another...like an alarmed multitude of spectators, about to witness a terrible catastrophe...it was glorious to witness them alighting down again from their wild flight into the current of the song."

[@SpeegBJ]

Indeed!

[@dottedboy]

thank you for posting this

[@katherinerhoda]

What recording is this taken from, please? Thank you!

[@yaelpalombo4093]

👏♥️👏

[@robchen7612]

This is a Momento Mori photo.

[@jamestown8398]

This rendition of the song finishes too early.

[@canadulce3697]

"hormonised songs" ? 😂

[@fiddlemusik]

A typo that never was corrected. But a fun one. :)