Come inside dat fence.

I done tole you yes'day

You didn't hab no sense.

What's dat? A-waitin' fo' yo' daddy?

(Bress his little hea't!)

Why, chile! Yo' daddy won't be comin'

Froo dat woodsy pa't

At dis time ob de ebenin'.

Don't you see dat moon?

Dat's de sign dat spooks