Chapter 3

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A. B. C., 154

Alabama Way, The, 164

Anchor Line, 87

Animal Attire, 158

Animal Fair, 159

Animal Persecutors, 205

Antebellum Courtship Inquiry, 135

Antebellum Marriage Proposal, 137

Are You Careful, 203

Ark, The, 44

As I Went to Shiloh, 13

Aspiration, 159

Aunt Dinah Drunk, 53

Aunt Jemima, 107

Awful Harbingers, 149

Baa! Baa! Black Sheep, 27

Baby Wants Cherries, 181

Bad Features, 100

Banjo Picking, The, 21

Bat! Bat! 202

Bedbug, 96

Bitter Lovers' Quarrel, A, 127

Black-eyed Peas For Luck, 200

Blessings, 204

Blindfold Play Chant, 73

Bob-White's Song, 155

Bought Me a Wife, 145

Brag and Boast, 213

Bridle up a Rat, 157

Bring on your Hot Corn, 29

Brother Ben and Sister Sal, 46

Buck and Berry, 172

Buck-eyed Rabbit! Whoopee!, 175

Budget, A, 79

Bull Frog Put on the Soldier Clothes, 20

Butterfly, 182

Captain Coon, 176

Captain Dime, 5

Care in Bread-making, 112

Caught by the Witch Play, 74

Chicken in the Bread Tray, 7

Chicken Pie, 69

Children's Seating Rhyme, 179

Christmas Turkey, 98

Chuck Will's Widow Song, 156

Clandestine Letter, A, 136

Coffee Grows on White Folks' Trees, 107

College Ox, The, 112

Cooking Dinner, 156

Cotton-eyed Joe, 32

Courting Boy, The, 141

Courtship, 138

Cow Needs a Tail in Fly-time, The, 35

Crooked Nose Jane, 99

Crossing a Foot-Log, 109

Crossing the River, 6

Day's Happiness, A, 125

Deedle, Dumpling, 171

Destinies of Good and Bad Children, 200

Destitute Former Slave Owners, 97

Devilish Pigs, 24

Did You Feed My Cow? 78

Die in the Pig-Pen Fighting, 39

Dinah's Dinner Horn, 18

Do I Love You? 129

Does Money Talk?, 113

Don't Ask Me Questions, 63

Don't Sing before Breakfast, 186

Don't Tell All You Know, 214

Doodle-Bug, 174

Down in the Lonesome Garden, 89

Drinking Razor Soup, 211

Elephant, The, 116

End of Ten Little Negroes, The, 163

Fattening Frogs for Snakes, 97

Fed From the Tree of Knowledge, 212

Few Negroes by States, A, 117

Fine Plaster, A, 124

Fishing Simon, 177

Flap-jacks, 196

Forty-four, 71

Four Runaway Negroes; Whence They Came, 205

Fox and Geese, 40

Fox and Geese Play, 73

Fox and Rabbit Drinking Propositions, 111

Frightened Away from a Chicken-Roost, 95

Frog in a Mill (Guinea or Ebo Rhyme), 167

Frog Went a-Courting, 190

From Slavery, 162

Full Pocketbook, A, 99

Getting Ten Negro Boys Together, 184

Go to Bed, 175

Going To Be Good Slaves, 101

Good-by, Ring, 171

Good-by, Wife!, 148

Gooseberry Wine, 41

Goosie-Gander Play Rhyme, 75

Grasshopper Sense, 169

Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine, 173

Gray and Black Horses, 45

Great Owl's Song, The, 151

Green Oak Tree! Rocky-o!, 81

Guinea Gall, 176

Half Way Doings, 120

Ham Beats all Meat, 67

Harvest Song, 57

Hated Blackbird and Crow, The, 183

Hawk and Buzzard, 75

Hawk and Chickens, 185

Hawk and Chickens Play, 74

He Is My Horse, 16

He Loves Sugar and Tea, 84

He Paid Me Seven (Parody), 122

He Will Get Mr. Coon, 28

Hear-say, 114

Here Comes a Young Man Courting, 85

Here I Stand, 153

Hoecake, 49

How to Get to Glory Land, 96

How to Keep or Kill The Devil, 104

How to Make it Rain, 101

How to Plant and Cultivate Seeds, 208

How to Please a Preacher, 117

Hunting Camp, The, 43

I am not Going to Hobo Any More, 70

I Love Somebody, 51

I Walked the Roads, 139

I Went down the Road, 50

I Wish I Was an Apple, 133

I Would not Marry a Black Girl, 56

I Would not Marry A Yellow Or A White Negro Girl, 63

I'd rather Be a Negro than a Poor White Man, 42

I'll Eat When I'm Hungry, 114

I'll Get You, Rabbit!, 116

I'll Wear Me a Cotton Dress, 118

I'm a "Round-Town" Gentleman, 108

If You Frown, 137

In '76, 178

In a Mulberry Tree, 158

In a Rush, 183

Independent, 209

Indian Flea, 12

Invited to Take the Escort's Arm, 135

It Is Hard to Love, 132

Jack and Dinah Want Freedom, 215

Jackson, Put that Kettle On!, 17

Jawbone, 12

Jaybird, 14

Jaybird Died with the Whooping Cough, 36

Joe and Malinda Jane, 4

John Henry, 105

Johnny Bigfoot, 93

Jonah's Band Party, 1

Juba, 9

Judge Buzzard, 16

Jump Jim Crow, 13

Kept Busy, 109

Kissing Song, 82

Kneel on This Carpet, 82

Last of Jack, The, 149

Learn to Count, 207

"Let's Marry" Courtship, 138

Likes and Dislikes, 76

Little Boy Who Couldn't Count Seven, 160

Little Dogs, 150

Little Negro Fly, The, 199

Little Pickaninny, A, 186

Little Red Hen, 37

Little Rooster, The, 29

Little Sister, Won't You Marry Me? 90

Little Sleeping Negroes, 187

Looking for a Fight, 118

Love Is Just a Thing of Fancy, 2

Lovers' Good-night, 129

Mamma's Darling, 188

Man of Words, A, 208

Master is Six Feet One Way, 40

Master Killed a Big Bull, 126

Master's "Stolen" Coat, The, 62

Me and my Lover, 132

Miss Blodger, 199

Miss Slippy Sloppy, 100

Miss Terrapin and Miss Toad, 162

Molly Cottontail, 8

Mother Says I am Six Years Old, 164

Mourning Slave Fiancees, 129

Mud-Log Pond, 185

Mule's Kick, The, 98

Mule's Nature, The, 108

My Baby, 180

My Dog, Cuff, 150

My Fiddle, 39

My First and my Second Wife, 147

My Folks and your Folks, 187

My Little Pig, 157

My Mule, 19

My Speckled Hen, 170

My Wonderful Travel, 55

Mysterious Face Washing, 174

Nashville Ladies, The, 106

Negro and the Policeman, The, 66

Negro Baker Man, 154

Negro Soldier's Civil War Chant, 115

Negroes Never Die, 11

Nesting, 180

Newly Weds, The, 144

No Room to Poke Fun, 99

Nobody Looking, 48

Off from Richmond, 15

Old Aunt Kate, 179

Old Black Gnats, The, 80

Old Gray Mink, 33

Old Hen Cackled, The, 50

Old Man Know-all, 211

Old Molly Hare, 22

Old Section Boss, The, 64

Old Woman in the Hills, The, 54

On Top of the Pot, 10

Opossum Hunt, An, 23

Origin of the Snake, The, 165

Our Old Mule, 112

Outrunning the Devil, 103

Page's Geese, 102

Parody--He Paid Me Seven, 122

Parody on "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep", 115

Parody on "Reign, Master Jesus! Reign!", 122

Paying Debts with Kicks, 184

Peep Squirrel, 78

Periwinkle, 201

Pig Tail, 153

Plaster, 60

'Possum up the Gum Stump, 3

Precious Things, 84

Presenting a Hat to Phoebe, 140

Pretty Little Girl, 172

Pretty Little Pink, 127

Pretty Pair of Chickens, A, 181

Pretty Polly Ann, 142

Promises of Freedom, 25

Rabbit Hash, 203

Rabbit Soup, 33

Raccoon and Opossum Fight, 31

Race-starter's Rhyme, A, 180

Raise a "Rucus" To-night, 90

Randsome Tantsome, 202

Rascal, The, 106

Ration Day, 38

Rattler, 46

Raw Head and Bloody Bones, 174

Redhead Woodpecker, 178

Rejected by Eliza Jane, 134

Request to Sell, A, 123

Roses Red, 128

Run, Nigger, Run!, 34

Sail Away, Ladies!, 20

Sallie, 87

Salt-rising Bread, 83

Sam Is a Clever Fellow, 151

Satan, 93

Self-control, 213

Sex Laugh, 102

Shake the Persimmons Down, 34

She Hugged Me and Kissed Me, 131

Sheep and Goat, 17

Sheep Shell Corn, 59

Shoo! Shoo!, 196

Short Letter, A, 113

Sick Wife, A, 55

Simon Slick's Mule, 47

Slave Marriage Ceremony Supplement, 143

Snail's Reply, The, 170

Song to the Runaway Slave, 88

Sparking or Courting, 136

Speak Softly, 214

Stand Back, Black Man, 10

Stealing a Ride, 188

Stick-a-ma-stew, 155

Still Water Creek, 2

Still Water Runs Deep, 214

Strange Brood, A, 166

Strange Family, A, 171

Strange Old Woman, A, 178

Strong Hands, 167

Sugar in Coffee, 30

Sugar Loaf Tea, 81

Susan Jane, 77

Susie Girl, 76

Suze Ann, 68

Sweet Pinks and Roses, 92

Tails, 5

Taking a Walk, 183

Teaching Table Manners, 197

Temperance Rhyme, 209

That Hypocrite, 210

"They Steal" Gossip, 110

This Sun is Hot, 108

Thrifty Slave, The, 94

To Win a Yellow Girl, 102

Tongue, The, 212

Too Much Watermelon, 182

Town Bird and the Country Bird, The, 166

Training the Boy, 201

Tree Frogs (Guinea or Ebo Rhyme), 168

Turkey Funeral, A, 111

T-U-Turkey, 6

Turtle's Song, The, 30

Two Sick Negro Boys, 173

Two Times One, 121

Uncle Jerry Fants, 109

Uncle Ned, 61

Vinie, 130

Walk, Talk, Chicken with your Head Pecked, 4

Walk, Tom Wilson, 68

Wanted: Cornbread and Coon, 37

War is On, The, 207

Washing Mamma's Dishes, 189

Watermelon Preferred, 110

We Are "All the Go", 52

We'll Stick to the Hoe, 123

What Will We Do for Bacon?, 185

When I Go to Marry, 144

When I Was a Little Boy, 168

When I Was a Roustabout, 145

When My Wife Dies, 26

Why Look at Me, 113

Why the Woodpecker's Head Is Red, 203

Wild Hog Hunt, 165

Wild Negro Bill, 94

Willie Wee, 189

Wind Bag, A, 101

Wooing, 140

Year of Jubilee, 58

You Had Better Mind Master, 126

You Have Made Me Weep, 128

You Love your Girl, 95

Young Master and Old Master, 169

FOREIGN SECTION INDEX

_African Rhymes_

Byanswahn-Byanswahn, 219 Near Waldo Teedo o mah nah mejai, 216 Sai Boddeoh Sumpun Komo, 218 The Frogs, 220 The Owl, 217 The Turkey Buzzard, 220 Tuba Blay, 217

_A Philippine Island Rhyme_, 227

_Trinidad Rhymes_

A Tom Cat, 226 Un Belle Marie Coolie, 225

_Jamaica Rhyme_

Buscher Garden, 222

_Venezuelan Rhymes_

A "Would Be" Immigrant, 224 Game Contestants' Song, 223