ON THE TRAIL OF NEGRO FOLK-SONGS
A Collection Of Negro Traditional & Folk Songs with Sheet Music Lyrics & Commentaries - online book
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DANCE-SONGS OR REELS |
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OL' VIRGINNY NEVER TIRE |
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There is a gal in our town,
She wears a yallow striped gown,
And when she walks the streets aroun',
The hollow of her foot makes a hole in the groun\
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OF folks, young folks, cl'ar the kitchen, OF folks, young folks, cl'ar the kitchen. 01? Virginny never tire.
As I was walkhV up the Three Chop Road I met a terrapin and a toad. Ev'ry time the toad would jump, The terrapin dodged behind a stump.
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This was an old dance-song, which Mrs. Dickinson's grandmother sang, as she had learned it from the slaves. There were various other stanzas, she says. The Three Chop Road is in the outskirts of Richmond, a famous old road, which Mary Johnston mentions in one of her novels. |
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