(Re-enter All, singing one verse of JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER.)
Captain (to Scott):
There is but one who can save you now;
From a cabin home he came,
He is our honored President,
And Lincoln is his name!
Then to our honored President,
For pardon we will go,
We will march if there be hope
No more with heads bowed low.
(Exit All.)
(Boys, in make-up of negroes enter. They sing the following song, and imitate banjo playing while singing the chorus.)
THE SUNNY SOUTHLAND[G]
'Way down in the sunny Southland,
Lives the little black boy, you know,
His mother sings a lullaby,
To the tune of the old banjo.
Chorus: Plunkety-plunk, plunkety-plunk,
Down in the cotton-field we go.
Plunkety-plunk, plunkety-plunk,
Plunkety-plunk, plunk-plunk, banjo.
'Way down in the sunny Southland,
Where the sky is so bright and blue,
The black boy on the banjo strings
Likes to play the same tune to you.
Chorus: Plunkety-plunk, etc.
'Way down in the sunny Southland
You will hear this sweet lullaby,
The wee black boy must go to sleep,
For the Sandman is passing by.
Chorus: Plunkety-plunk, etc.
Soldiers (return, shouting):
Hurrah! Scott is pardoned.
(They repeat the last four lines of their first song and march off.)
[G] Music for this will be found under Songs in another part of this book.