Hey, it’s a good game!
You won’t mind it s’ much, ma’am.
’F anybody steps on you jist kick ’em, Miss Meredith! That’s the way a lady do. (They form a circle, and begin to sing and play.)
“Straight across the hall to the opposite lady,
Swing her by the right hand,
Swing yer pardner by the left,
An’ promenade the girl behind you.
“Oh, that girl, that purty little girl,
The girl I left behind me,
I weeped an’ cried t’ the day I died