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American Ballads and Folk Songs |
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Chorus:
Foller de drinkin' gou'd, Foller de drinkin' gou'd j For de ol' man say, "Foller de drinkin' gou'd."
De riva's bank am a very good road, De dead trees show de way; Lef' foot, peg foot goin' on, Foller de drinkin' gou'd. (Chorus.)
De river ends atween two hills, Foller de drinkin' gou'd j 'Nother river on de other side, Foller de drinkin' gou'd. (Chorus.)
Wha de little river
Meet de gre' big un,
De ol' man waits—
Foller de drinkin' gou'd. (Chorus.) |
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RUN, NIGGER, RUN!
George B. Elliott of the law department of the Atlantic Railroad Company wrote in 1911 from Wilmington, North Carolina, quoting from a letter he had just received from O. B. Smith, Henderson, North Carolina:
"Your card of inquiry for the words 'Run, Nigger, Run, the Patter-roller Git You' came to-night and cheerful as the chirp of the cricket on the hearth. Jessie gave you Uncle Remus' version of recent hashed-up things since the War, before I had time to say anything, but I heard it in this wise before Uncle Remus was born:
"Just after the Nat Turner Insurrection in 1832 the Negroes were put under special restriction to home quarters, and patrolmen apÂpointed to keep them in, and if caught without a written pass from
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