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diff --git a/17773.txt b/17773.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01b95bb --- /dev/null +++ b/17773.txt @@ -0,0 +1,660 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Slavery's Passed Away and Other Songs, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Slavery's Passed Away and Other Songs + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 16, 2006 [EBook #17773] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SLAVERY'S PASSED AWAY *** + + + + +Produced by Carlo Traverso, Linda Cantoni, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by the Library of Congress.) + + + + + + + + + +Slavery's Passed Away and Other Songs + + +[Transcriber's Note: This file contains only the lyrics to the songs. To +view music images, hear the music in .midi format, or download Lilypond +source code, see the HTML version of this e-text.] + + + + +Slavery's Passed Away. + +As sung in Edward Harrigan's Drama, + +"PETE." + +_Words by EDWARD HARRIGAN._ + +_Music by DAVE BRAHAM._ + +Copyright, 1887, by Wm. A. Pond & Co. + + +Oh child come to me and just sit down by my knee, +I'll tell that same old story just once more; +Of dark, clouded years, oh, so full of bitter tears, +In those bondage days of long before the war. +In rice-field and in cane, there the black man felt the pain, +The driver's whip it cut him ev'ry day; +Our good Lord above, with his never dying love, +Made that cruel, cruel slavery pass'd away. + +Oh child, in those times then I liv'd among the pines, +Yes, in an old log cabin I was born; +Then I heard the moan when the mothers lost their own, +In those bondage days, oh thank the Lord they're gone. +That Iron chain and band they grow rusty in this land, +No more the blood hound hold the slave at bay; +So we bend the knee to the Lord that made us free, +For that cruel, cruel slavery pass'd away. + +Oh I don't complain, it will never come again, +So all our little children, black and brown; +They ne'er can be sold for that yellow shining gold, +For sweet Freedom, child, she has put on her crown. +She came here in the night, oh then might gave in to right, +Old Abra'm Lincoln brought about the stay; +So shout Hallelu--there's a lot of work to do, +For that cruel, cruel slavery pass'd away. + +_CHORUS._ + + Oh shout Hallelujah, Freedom ever rules the land, + Go bend your knee, black people for to pray; + The shackle and the band has fell from the Bondsman's hand, + And that cruel, cruel slavery's pass'd away. + + + + +OLE SHADY. + +THE SONG OF THE CONTRABAND. + + +Oh! yah! yah! darkies laugh wid me, +For de white folks say Ole Shady's free, +So don't you see dat de jubilee +Is a coming, coming, +Hail mighty day. + +CHORUS. + + Den away, away, for I can't wait any longer, + Hooray, hooray, I'm going home. + Den away, away, for I can't wait any longer, + Hooray, hooray, I'm going home. + +Oh, Mass' got scared and so did his lady, +Dis chile breaks for Ole Uncle Aby, +_"Open de gates out here's Ole Shady a +coming, coming,"_ +Hail mighty day. + +_Chorus._ + +Good bye Mass' Jeff, good bye Mis'r Stephens, +'Scuse dis niggah for takin his leavins, +'Spect pretty soon you'll hear Uncle Abram's +coming, coming, +Hail mighty day. + +_Chorus._ + +Good bye hard work wid never any pay, +Ise a gwine up North where the good folks say, +Dat white wheat bread and a dollar a day, +Are coming, coming, +Hail mighty day. + +_Chorus._ + +Oh, I've got a wife, and I've got a baby, +Living up yonder in Lower _Canady_,[A] +Won't dey laugh when dey see Ole Shady +A coming, coming, +Hail mighty day. + +_Chorus._ + +[Footnote A: _Canada._] + + + + +THE LITTLE LOG CABIN ON THE HILL. + +SONG AND CHORUS + +Words by ARTHUR W. FRENCH. + +Music by HERBERT HERSEY. + +Copyrighted, 1876, by JOHN P. PERRY & Co. + + +'Twas many years ago I left de sunny South, to roam +Up North, de happy day dat I was free; +From massa an' ole missus, too, and all de folks at home, +Whose faces now I neber more shall see; +I'se trabeled night and day to see de dear old place once more; +De cotton fields, de ribber, and de mill; +But most of all, where I was born, in happy days before, +In de little log cabin on de hill! + +Oh, I remember ebry day, when all our work was o'er, +We'd hear de bones' and banjos' sweet refrain, +While all de darkies danc'd and swung around de cabin door; +Dem happy times will neber come again; +We'd hunt de possum and de coon until de mornin' fair, +An' laugh and shout, so gay and jolly still; +Such joyous, happy darkies, an' we had no tho't of care, +In de little log cabin on de hill! + +Upon de ole plantation there is no one left I know; +De folks are wand'ring all so far away, +An' strangers meet me ebrywhere, yes, ebrywhere I go! +But round dis ole place Ise a-goin' to stay; +Dar's one spot left, they say, where I can evermore remain; +Dar kindness makes my poor heart throb and thrill; +Ise growin' ole and weary, so I'll neber roam again +From de little log cabin on de hill! + +CHORUS. + + Oh de little log cabin, yes, de cabin on de hill; + It's standing there, the same old cabin still; + 'neath de dear old roof I'll lie, + An' I'll lay me down an' die, + In de little log cabin on de hill. + + + + +DARKEY SAM. + +SONG AND CHORUS. + +Arr. by J. YOUNG, Esq. + + +1 + +Oh my name is Darkey Sam, +And I'se a black-eyed contraband; + Down on de Chickahominee I was born; +But old massa run away, +When de Linkum sogers play: + So, I started for de Norf in de morn.... +I soon met wid a man, +And he took me by de hand, + And he brought me to de Bobolition meetin: +Dar de brudders made a speech, +And de sisters 'gan to preach; + Dey said dat my complexion was light, +And de world dey would teach +What a point dey could reach, + And dey'd show dat dey could wash de nigger white. + +CHORUS. + + I soon met wid a man, + And he took me by de hand, + And he brought me to de Bobolition meetin: + Dar de brudders made a speech, + And de sisters 'gan to preach: + Dey said dey could wash de nigger white. + +2 + +Dey got me very soon, +And dey put me in a room: + Dis nigger couldn't tell what dey was after; +Dey took off all my clothes, +And den what does you suppose? + Dey put me in a tub of boilin' water! +And den dey got around, +And some scrubbin'-brushes found, + And said dey'd wash me whiter dan paper. +Oh! dey got me in a tub, +And dey all began to rub: + I tell you it was a pretty sight! +For, some put on de soap. +And de oders dey did scrub, + But dey found dey couldn't wash de nigger white. + +3 + +De next thing dey done +For to make de color run, + Dey began to rub me wid sand paper: +Oh! dey nearly killed me dead, +But dey only made me red: + I tell you it was an awful caper! +Den dey whitewashed me so slick, +But de lime it wouldn't stick: + I, golly! I was just as black as ever! +Den dey got a lot of hay, +And dey rubbed and scrubbed away: + Oh! dey kept at it all dat night; +But den dey found, next day, +Dat de job it wouldn't pay, + 'Kase dey neber could wash de nigger white. + +4 + +When I found dat dey was tired, +Says I: Gemmen list to me, + And you will find dat I am a right, man; +De nigger will be nigger, +Till de day of Jubilee; + For, he nebber was intended for a white man; +Den just skedaddle home, +Leave de colored man alone; + For, you're only makin trouble in de nation; +You may fight, and you may muss, +You may make a heap of fuss, + But you nebber will make tings right, +Until you all agree +For to let de nigger be: + 'Kase you'll neber, neber, neber wash him white. + + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Slavery's Passed Away and Other Songs, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SLAVERY'S PASSED AWAY *** + +***** This file should be named 17773.txt or 17773.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/7/17773/ + +Produced by Carlo Traverso, Linda Cantoni, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. 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