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