Is dere anybody can take yo’ mama’s place?
De Mississippi River
Is so deep and wide,
Can’t see my good brown
From de other side.
[71] Cf. phonograph record, Can Anybody Take Sweet Mama’s Place?
But the chief theme in woman’s song, as in man’s, is trouble. Sometimes the dominant note is disappointment:
Dat nigger o’ mine don’t love me no mo’,
Dat ungrateful feller don’t love me no mo’.
Sometimes it is regret: