Our Singing Country
Complete Text, Lyrics & Sheet Music
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Negro Gang Songs |
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* Remaining stanzas may be sung to the tune either of stanza i or of stanza 2.
1 Long summer day makes a white man lazy, Long summer day,
Well, a long summer day makes a white man lazy, Long summer day.
2 Well, a long summer day make a nigger run away, sir, Long summer day,
Well, a long summer day make a nigger run away, sir, Long summer day.
3 Well, a-pickin' that cotton in the bottom field, sir, Long summer day,
Well, it's gatherin' up the cotton in the bottom field, sir, Long summer day.
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