CLXXXVII.
1st Figure.
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Complain complain complain, Complain about me one, Me daddy complain, me mahmy complain, Complain about me one. |
"Me one," i.e. "only me." Everlasting complaints, always about me! (What child does not suffer in this way?) In Negro speech complain stands for complaint as well as for the verb.
CLXXXVIII.
Elderly readers will recognise a popular song of thirty years ago in the following:—