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Chapter 16

Part I

  • 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
  • Push the Hog's Feet under the Bed,
  • 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