GENERAL INDEX

Part I

A. B. C., [154]
Alabama Way, The, [164]
Anchor Line, [87]
Animal Attire, [158]
Animal Fair, [159]
Animal Persecutors, [205]
Antebellum Courtship Inquiry, [135]
Antebellum Marriage Proposal, [137]
Are You Careful, [203]
Ark, The, [44]
As I Went to Shiloh, [13]
Aspiration, [159]
Aunt Dinah Drunk, [53]
Aunt Jemima, [107]
Awful Harbingers, [149]

Baa! Baa! Black Sheep, [27]
Baby Wants Cherries, [181]
Bad Features, [100]
Banjo Picking, The, [21]
Bat! Bat! [202]
Bedbug, [96]
Bitter Lovers' Quarrel, A, [127]
Black-eyed Peas For Luck, [200]
Blessings, [204]
Blindfold Play Chant, [73]
Bob-White's Song, [155]
Bought Me a Wife, [145]
Brag and Boast, [213]
Bridle up a Rat, [157]
Bring on your Hot Corn, [29]
Brother Ben and Sister Sal, [46]
Buck and Berry, [172]
Buck-eyed Rabbit! Whoopee!, [175]
Budget, A, [79]
Bull Frog Put on the Soldier Clothes, [20]
Butterfly, [182]

Captain Coon, [176]
Captain Dime, [5]
Care in Bread-making, [112]
Caught by the Witch Play, [74]
Chicken in the Bread Tray, [7]
Chicken Pie, [69]
Children's Seating Rhyme, [179]
Christmas Turkey, [98]
Chuck Will's Widow Song, [156]
Clandestine Letter, A, [136]
Coffee Grows on White Folks' Trees, [107]
College Ox, The, [112]
Cooking Dinner, [156]
Cotton-eyed Joe, [32]
Courting Boy, The, [141]
Courtship, [138]
Cow Needs a Tail in Fly-time, The, [35]
Crooked Nose Jane, [99]
Crossing a Foot-Log, [109]
Crossing the River, [6]

Day's Happiness, A, [125]
Deedle, Dumpling, [171]
Destinies of Good and Bad Children, [200]
Destitute Former Slave Owners, [97]
Devilish Pigs, [24]
Did You Feed My Cow? [78]
Die in the Pig-Pen Fighting, [39]
Dinah's Dinner Horn, [18]
Do I Love You? [129]
Does Money Talk?, [113]
Don't Ask Me Questions, [63]
Don't Sing before Breakfast, [186]
Don't Tell All You Know, [214]
Doodle-Bug, [174]
Down in the Lonesome Garden, [89]
Drinking Razor Soup, [211]

Elephant, The, [116]
End of Ten Little Negroes, The, [163]

Fattening Frogs for Snakes, [97]
Fed From the Tree of Knowledge, [212]
Few Negroes by States, A, [117]
Fine Plaster, A, [124]
Fishing Simon, [177]
Flap-jacks, [196]
Forty-four, [71]
Four Runaway Negroes; Whence They Came, [205]
Fox and Geese, [40]
Fox and Geese Play, [73]
Fox and Rabbit Drinking Propositions, [111]
Frightened Away from a Chicken-Roost, [95]
Frog in a Mill (Guinea or Ebo Rhyme), [167]
Frog Went a-Courting, [190]
From Slavery, [162]
Full Pocketbook, A, [99]

Getting Ten Negro Boys Together, [184]
Go to Bed, [175]
Going To Be Good Slaves, [101]
Good-by, Ring, [171]
Good-by, Wife!, [148]
Gooseberry Wine, [41]
Goosie-Gander Play Rhyme, [75]
Grasshopper Sense, [169]
Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine, [173]
Gray and Black Horses, [45]
Great Owl's Song, The, [151]
Green Oak Tree! Rocky-o!, [81]
Guinea Gall, [176]

Half Way Doings, [120]
Ham Beats all Meat, [67]
Harvest Song, [57]
Hated Blackbird and Crow, The, [183]
Hawk and Buzzard, [75]
Hawk and Chickens, [185]
Hawk and Chickens Play, [74]
He Is My Horse, [16]
He Loves Sugar and Tea, [84]
He Paid Me Seven (Parody), [122]
He Will Get Mr. Coon, [28]
Hear-say, [114]
Here Comes a Young Man Courting, [85]
Here I Stand, [153]
Hoecake, [49]
How to Get to Glory Land, [96]
How to Keep or Kill The Devil, [104]
How to Make it Rain, [101]
How to Plant and Cultivate Seeds, [208]
How to Please a Preacher, [117]
Hunting Camp, The, [43]

I am not Going to Hobo Any More, [70]
I Love Somebody, [51]
I Walked the Roads, [139]
I Went down the Road, [50]
I Wish I Was an Apple, [133]
I Would not Marry a Black Girl, [56]
I Would not Marry A Yellow Or A White Negro Girl, [63]
I'd rather Be a Negro than a Poor White Man, [42]
I'll Eat When I'm Hungry, [114]
I'll Get You, Rabbit!, [116]
I'll Wear Me a Cotton Dress, [118]
I'm a "Round-Town" Gentleman, [108]
If You Frown, [137]
In '76, [178]
In a Mulberry Tree, [158]
In a Rush, [183]
Independent, [209]
Indian Flea, [12]
Invited to Take the Escort's Arm, [135]
It Is Hard to Love, [132]

Jack and Dinah Want Freedom, [215]
Jackson, Put that Kettle On!, [17]
Jawbone, [12]
Jaybird, [14]
Jaybird Died with the Whooping Cough, [36]
Joe and Malinda Jane, [4]
John Henry, [105]
Johnny Bigfoot, [93]
Jonah's Band Party, [1]
Juba, [9]
Judge Buzzard, [16]
Jump Jim Crow, [13]

Kept Busy, [109]
Kissing Song, [82]
Kneel on This Carpet, [82]

Last of Jack, The, [149]
Learn to Count, [207]
"Let's Marry" Courtship, [138]
Likes and Dislikes, [76]
Little Boy Who Couldn't Count Seven, [160]
Little Dogs, [150]
Little Negro Fly, The, [199]
Little Pickaninny, A, [186]
Little Red Hen, [37]
Little Rooster, The, [29]
Little Sister, Won't You Marry Me? [90]
Little Sleeping Negroes, [187]
Looking for a Fight, [118]
Love Is Just a Thing of Fancy, [2]
Lovers' Good-night, [129]

Mamma's Darling, [188]
Man of Words, A, [208]
Master is Six Feet One Way, [40]
Master Killed a Big Bull, [126]
Master's "Stolen" Coat, The, [62]
Me and my Lover, [132]
Miss Blodger, [199]
Miss Slippy Sloppy, [100]
Miss Terrapin and Miss Toad, [162]
Molly Cottontail, [8]
Mother Says I am Six Years Old, [164]
Mourning Slave Fiancees, [129]
Mud-Log Pond, [185]
Mule's Kick, The, [98]
Mule's Nature, The, [108]
My Baby, [180]
My Dog, Cuff, [150]
My Fiddle, [39]
My First and my Second Wife, [147]
My Folks and your Folks, [187]
My Little Pig, [157]
My Mule, [19]
My Speckled Hen, [170]
My Wonderful Travel, [55]
Mysterious Face Washing, [174]

Nashville Ladies, The, [106]
Negro and the Policeman, The, [66]
Negro Baker Man, [154]
Negro Soldier's Civil War Chant, [115]
Negroes Never Die, [11]
Nesting, [180]
Newly Weds, The, [144]
No Room to Poke Fun, [99]
Nobody Looking, [48]

Off from Richmond, [15]
Old Aunt Kate, [179]
Old Black Gnats, The, [80]
Old Gray Mink, [33]
Old Hen Cackled, The, [50]
Old Man Know-all, [211]
Old Molly Hare, [22]
Old Section Boss, The, [64]
Old Woman in the Hills, The, [54]
On Top of the Pot, [10]
Opossum Hunt, An, [23]
Origin of the Snake, The, [165]
Our Old Mule, [112]
Outrunning the Devil, [103]

Page's Geese, [102]
Parody—He Paid Me Seven, [122]
Parody on "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep", [115]
Parody on "Reign, Master Jesus! Reign!", [122]
Paying Debts with Kicks, [184]
Peep Squirrel, [78]
Periwinkle, [201]
Pig Tail, [153]
Plaster, [60]
'Possum up the Gum Stump, [3]
Precious Things, [84]
Presenting a Hat to Phoebe, [140]
Pretty Little Girl, [172]
Pretty Little Pink, [127]
Pretty Pair of Chickens, A, [181]
Pretty Polly Ann, [142]
Promises of Freedom, [25]
Push the Hog's Feet under the Bed,

Rabbit Hash, [203]
Rabbit Soup, [33]
Raccoon and Opossum Fight, [31]
Race-starter's Rhyme, A, [180]
Raise a "Rucus" To-night, [90]
Randsome Tantsome, [202]
Rascal, The, [106]
Ration Day, [38]
Rattler, [46]
Raw Head and Bloody Bones, [174]
Redhead Woodpecker, [178]
Rejected by Eliza Jane, [134]
Request to Sell, A, [123]
Roses Red, [128]
Run, Nigger, Run!, [34]

Sail Away, Ladies!, [20]
Sallie, [87]
Salt-rising Bread, [83]
Sam Is a Clever Fellow, [151]
Satan, [93]
Self-control, [213]
Sex Laugh, [102]
Shake the Persimmons Down, [34]
She Hugged Me and Kissed Me, [131]
Sheep and Goat, [17]
Sheep Shell Corn, [59]
Shoo! Shoo!, [196]
Short Letter, A, [113]
Sick Wife, A, [55]
Simon Slick's Mule, [47]
Slave Marriage Ceremony Supplement, [143]
Snail's Reply, The, [170]
Song to the Runaway Slave, [88]
Sparking or Courting, [136]
Speak Softly, [214]
Stand Back, Black Man, [10]
Stealing a Ride, [188]
Stick-a-ma-stew, [155]
Still Water Creek, [2]
Still Water Runs Deep, [214]
Strange Brood, A, [166]
Strange Family, A, [171]
Strange Old Woman, A, [178]
Strong Hands, [167]
Sugar in Coffee, [30]
Sugar Loaf Tea, [81]
Susan Jane, [77]
Susie Girl, [76]
Suze Ann, [68]
Sweet Pinks and Roses, [92]

Tails, [5]
Taking a Walk, [183]
Teaching Table Manners, [197]
Temperance Rhyme, [209]
That Hypocrite, [210]
"They Steal" Gossip, [110]
This Sun is Hot, [108]
Thrifty Slave, The, [94]
To Win a Yellow Girl, [102]
Tongue, The, [212]
Too Much Watermelon, [182]
Town Bird and the Country Bird, The, [166]
Training the Boy, [201]
Tree Frogs (Guinea or Ebo Rhyme), [168]
Turkey Funeral, A, [111]
T-U-Turkey, [6]
Turtle's Song, The, [30]
Two Sick Negro Boys, [173]
Two Times One, [121]

Uncle Jerry Fants, [109]
Uncle Ned, [61]

Vinie, [130]

Walk, Talk, Chicken with your Head Pecked, [4]
Walk, Tom Wilson, [68]
Wanted: Cornbread and Coon, [37]
War is On, The, [207]
Washing Mamma's Dishes, [189]
Watermelon Preferred, [110]
We Are "All the Go", [52]
We'll Stick to the Hoe, [123]
What Will We Do for Bacon?, [185]
When I Go to Marry, [144]
When I Was a Little Boy, [168]
When I Was a Roustabout, [145]
When My Wife Dies, [26]
Why Look at Me, [113]
Why the Woodpecker's Head Is Red, [203]
Wild Hog Hunt, [165]
Wild Negro Bill, [94]
Willie Wee, [189]
Wind Bag, A, [101]
Wooing, [140]

Year of Jubilee, [58]
You Had Better Mind Master, [126]
You Have Made Me Weep, [128]
You Love your Girl, [95]
Young Master and Old Master, [169]

Foreign Section Index

African Rhymes
- Byanswahn-Byanswahn, [219]
- Near Waldo Teedo o mah nah mejai, [216]
- Sai Boddeoh Sumpun Komo, [218]
- The Frogs, [220]
- The Owl, [217]
- The Turkey Buzzard, [220]
- Tuba Blay, [217]

A Philippine Island Rhyme, [227]

Trinidad Rhymes
- A Tom Cat, [226]
- Un Belle Marie Coolie, [225]

Jamaica Rhyme
- Buscher Garden, [222]

Venezuelan Rhymes
- A "Would Be" Immigrant, [224]
- Game Contestants' Song, [223]

Part II

A Study in Negro Folk Rhymes, [228]