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Our Singing Country
PO' LAZ'US*
b to b^. No. 24.6. Tune, Judge Williams, Tucker Farm, Little Rock, Ark. Composite text from this and a number of other recorded sources. See Od.2, pp. 50 if., 90 ff.j L0.2, p. 915 also "Take This Hammer," this volume, p. 380.
1   I am going out West, partner, Way out West 'mong the robbers; I am going out West, partner. Way out West 'mong the robbers, Be a robber too,
Wo—Lawdy, be a robber too.
2   Dey was oP bad Laz'us, partner, He was a bully from a baby; He got blowed down,
Wo—Lawdy, he got blowed down.
3   OP Laz'us, he walked ony partner, Walked on the commissary counter j He walked away,
Wo—Lawdy, he walked away.
4  All de people, people, partner, They begin to start to talking "He done gone home,
Wo—Lawdy, he done gone home."
* For another tune, see American Ballads and Folk Songs. Both versions are sung- as work songs, and their connection with such songs as "Every Mail Day" and "Muley on the Mountain" is intimate.
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