Our Singing Country

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	Negro Gang Songs
	1   Take these stripes from, stripes from around my shoulder, huh! Take these chains, chains from 'round my leg, huh! Say, these stripes, stripes they sure don't worry me, huh! But these chains, chains gonna kill me dead, huh! Chorus: Lord, it's all, almost done, huh! Lord, it's all, almost done, huh! Lord, it's all, almost done, Nothin' but to bring them yallow womens over here, huh! 2  An' if it wasn't for, wasn't for my good captain, Lord, I would of, would of been gone down, By he liked, liked my hard rollin', Then he gave me little narrow round. 3   Says, she whispered, whispered to her mother, "Mother, I can't, can't see how he stand," Says, "He ain't, ain't but sweet sixteen, An' they drivin' him like a man." [387]