- yam will grow, de
cotton blow, We'll hab de rice an' corn: Oh,
nebber you fear, if
nebber you hear De
driver blow his horn! Of all the
poetry inspired by...
- Ole m****a gone, now let 'im rest, Dey say all
tings am for de best; I
nebber forget till de day I die, Ole m****a an' dat blue tail fly. Jim
crack corn...
- of
Tubman written by
Sarah Hopkins Bradford,
Harriet Tubman is quoted, I
nebber see such a sight. We laughed, an' laughed, an' laughed. Here you'd see a...
- tree am
blooming On de
sandy s****, Now de
summer days am coming,— M****a
nebber calls no more.
CHORUS VERSE 3 M****a make de
darkeys love him,
Cayse he was...
- society, as
evidenced by the
final verse:
Tucker was a
hardened sinner, He
nebber said his
grace at dinner; De ole sow squeel, de pigs did
squall He 'hole...
- Coon (1861) "Twelfth
Street Rag",
Euday L.
Bowman (1898/1914/1919) "Twill
Nebber Do to Gib It up So", Dan
Emmett (1843) "Uncle Gabriel" (1848) "Van Bramer's...
-
freed by dose
Northern men.
Another Lucas tune declares: "I
nebber shall forget, no
nebber, / De day I was sot free." In 1890,
Lucas served as an endman...
- Sam (1899) 'Tis Best for Us to Part (1899)
Upper Coondom (1899) Well, I
nebber could forgit dat
happy Home (1900) My
Dusky Queen (1901) The ****anese Patrol...
-
sight of his
master and
worries that he "won' hab no marster, an' won't
nebber be able to git back home no mo'".
Grandison remains by his master's side...
- from Louisiana, And I lik'd her as my life. We
happy lib'd
together She
nebber caus'd me pain, But on one dark and
dreary night I lost my Mary Blane. The...
