Obeah-do!
Low dem lie, low dem lie—
Hark de buzz ob de carrion fly!
But nobody guess what the snake-gard know,
Twining him root far down below—
Obeah-die!
Obeah-do!
Low dem lie, low dem lie—
De worms dey crawl in de dead men’s eye,
And de snake-gard he suck, and Jesse he know