Sing song, Polly, won’t you kime, oh?
Milk in de dairy, nine days ol’,
Rats an’ skippers are gettin’ hol’;
A long-tailed rat in a bucket of souse,
Jes’ come from de white folks’ house.
In North Carolina de niggers grow,
If de white man only plant his toe.
Water de ground with ’bacco smoke,
An’ up de nigger’s head will poke.
Way down South in Cedar street,