This episode includes recordings of four songs and their explanations sung and spoken by Zora Neale Hurston (recorded in Jacksonville, Florida on June 18, 1939). The recordings included are 1) "Georgia Skin" and "Let the Deal Go Down," a spoken description of a card game and gambling song, 2) "Let's Shake It," a railroad workers' lining song, 3) "Dat Old Black Gal" a railroad workers' spiking song, and 4) "Uncle Bud," an old "jook" song.