Negro Folk Rhymes / Wise and Otherwise: With a Study

by Thomas Washington Talley

• Rabbit Hash, [203]
• Rabbit Soup, [33]
• Raccoon and Opossum Fight, [31]
• Race-starter's Rhyme, A, [180]
• Raise a "Rucus" To-night, [90]
• Randsome Tantsome, [202]
• Rascal, The, [106]
• Ration Day, [38]
• Rattler, [46]
• Raw Head and Bloody Bones, [174]
• Redhead Woodpecker, [178]
• Rejected by Eliza Jane, [134]
• Request to Sell, A, [123]
• Roses Red, [128]
• Run, Nigger, Run!, [34]

• Sail Away, Ladies!, [20]
• Sallie, [87]
• Salt-rising Bread, [83]
• Sam Is a Clever Fellow, [151]
• Satan, [93]
• Self-control, [213]
• Sex Laugh, [102]
• Shake the Persimmons Down, [34]
• She Hugged Me and Kissed Me, [131]
• Sheep and Goat, [17]
• Sheep Shell Corn, [59]
• Shoo! Shoo!, [196]
• Short Letter, A, [113]
• Sick Wife, A, [55]
• Simon Slick's Mule, [47]
• Slave Marriage Ceremony Supplement, [143]
• Snail's Reply, The, [170]
• Song to the Runaway Slave, [88]
• Sparking or Courting, [136]
• Speak Softly, [214]
• Stand Back, Black Man, [10]
• Stealing a Ride, [188]
• Stick-a-ma-stew, [155]
• Still Water Creek, [2]
• Still Water Runs Deep, [214]
• Strange Brood, A, [166]
• Strange Family, A, [171]
• Strange Old Woman, A, [178]
• Strong Hands, [167]
• Sugar in Coffee, [30]
• Sugar Loaf Tea, [81]
• Susan Jane, [77]
• Susie Girl, [76]
• Suze Ann, [68]
• Sweet Pinks and Roses, [92]

• Tails, [5]
• Taking a Walk, [183]
• Teaching Table Manners, [197]
• Temperance Rhyme, [209]
• That Hypocrite, [210]
• "They Steal" Gossip, [110]
• This Sun is Hot, [108]
• Thrifty Slave, The, [94]
• To Win a Yellow Girl, [102]
• Tongue, The, [212]
• Too Much Watermelon, [182]
• Town Bird and the Country Bird, The, [166]
• Training the Boy, [201]
• Tree Frogs (Guinea or Ebo Rhyme), [168]
• Turkey Funeral, A, [111]
• T-U-Turkey, [6]
• Turtle's Song, The, [30]
• Two Sick Negro Boys, [173]
• Two Times One, [121]

• Uncle Jerry Fants, [109]
• Uncle Ned, [61]

• Vinie, [130]

• Walk, Talk, Chicken with your Head Pecked, [4]
• Walk, Tom Wilson, [68]
• Wanted: Cornbread and Coon, [37]
• War is On, The, [207]
• Washing Mamma's Dishes, [189]
• Watermelon Preferred, [110]
• We Are "All the Go", [52]
• We'll Stick to the Hoe, [123]
• What Will We Do for Bacon?, [185]
• When I Go to Marry, [144]
• When I Was a Little Boy, [168]
• When I Was a Roustabout, [145]
• When My Wife Dies, [26]
• Why Look at Me, [113]
• Why the Woodpecker's Head Is Red, [203]
• Wild Hog Hunt, [165]
• Wild Negro Bill, [94]
• Willie Wee, [189]
• Wind Bag, A, [101]
• Wooing, [140]

• Year of Jubilee, [58]
• You Had Better Mind Master, [126]
• You Have Made Me Weep, [128]
• You Love your Girl, [95]
• Young Master and Old Master, [169]

Foreign Section Index

• African Rhymes
  • Byanswahn-Byanswahn, [219]
  • Near Waldo Teedo o mah nah mejai, [216]
  • Sai Boddeoh Sumpun Komo, [218]
  • The Frogs, [220]
  • The Owl, [217]
  • The Turkey Buzzard, [220]
  • Tuba Blay, [217]

• A Philippine Island Rhyme, [227]