ON THE TRAIL OF NEGRO FOLK-SONGS

A Collection Of Negro Traditional & Folk Songs with Sheet Music Lyrics & Commentaries - online book

	SONGS ABOUT ANIMALS	203
	Ole Massa gone, now let 'im rest; Dey say all t'ings am for de best. I nebber forget till de day I die, Ole Massa an' dat blue-tail fly. Chorus Major Beverly Douglass improvised this stanza years ago: If you should come in summertime To ole Virginia's sultry clime, And in de shade you chance to He, You'll soon find out dat blue-tail fly. Chorus Garnett Eskew, of West Virginia, sang some of it in a different way, as: I won't forgit till de day I die How Master rode de blue-tail fly. Dat pony r'ar, dat pony kick, An' flinged old Master in de ditch. These illustrate variants on the minstrel song, Jim Crack Corn, found in "The Negro Melodist," 1857, and elsewhere. Even the mosquito has its song, as that sung by the Louisiana Negroes in the Creole patois, contributed by Mrs. George Dynoodt, of New Orleans. LA PLUIE TOMBE