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 4 Oh, you'd a grinned as I hab done. For when de nigger stole de gun, An' took de mutton' under done, De mutton weigh'd about a ton, To see him round de corner run, Takin' care ob number one, Oh, you may tink it was de fun. But dat's de way de row begun, Because he found a penny bun, A boodle-ink-a-tool, &c. Las' Saturday night De nigger went a huntin'; De dogs run de mulah, Den de mulah run de tiger, De tiger run de stiffneck, De stiffneck run de devil, An' dey all run togeder, An' de nigger run right arter. Den break de bone, &c. My daddy war a wolf My manimy war a tiger, But I'm what you call De ole Virginny nigger, Half fire, half smoke, A little touch of tunder, I guess I am what you call De twenty-sebenth wonder. Den break de bone, &c.

LUCY NEAL. As sung by the Ethiopian Serenaders. I was born at Alabama, My massa's name was Beale, He used to own a yellow girl, And called her Lucy Neal; I used to go out wid her To pick cotton in de field,