But he took away my yellah gal, an’ as
they passed me by,
I heard him say, “Now who’s your babe?” an’
then she said to him:
“No coon but you, babe,” etc.
That very same night there was a ball.
“Where, nigger, where?”
Down at the Black Fo’-Hundred’s Hall,
“S’pose you were there?”
Yes, I took along my razuh, an’ gave