[Harp-L] Another man done goneZombor writes:

["John F. Potts" <hvyj@xxxxxxx>]

Zombor writes:
If it was "another man has gone" I would understand. But what is  
"done gone"? Is it some american expression?

It's African-American vernacular sometimes referred to as "ebonics."   
Because of the cultural and geographic origins of blues music  (post  
emancipation but pre-integration U.S.) African-American and rural  
U.S. Southern-American vernacular and idiomatic expressions are  
common in blues lyrics. Most  American born English speakers have  
sufficient  exposure to African-American vernacular that they are  
able to understand the slang expressions used in blues lyrics without  
difficulty, but non-American English speakers or those for whom  
English is a second language may find it more difficult to understand  
such phrases and vocabulary in proper context.

JP