Comparative Study Index
Love Songs
Bitter Lovers’ Quarrel; One Side, 127
Courting Boy, The, 141
It Is Hard to Love, 132
I Wish I Was an Apple, 133
Lovers’ Good-night, 129
Me and my Lover, 132
Mourning Slave Fiancees, 129
Pretty Polly Ann, 142
Rejected by Eliza Jane, 134
Roses Red, 128
She Hugged Me and She Kissed Me, 131
Vinie, 130
Wooing, 140
You Have Made Me Weep, 128
You Love your Girl, 95
Dance Songs
Ark, The, 44
Aunt Dinah Drunk, 53
Baa! Baa! Black Sheep, 27
Banjo Picking, 21
Brother Ben and Sister Sal, 46
Bull Frog Put on the Soldier Clothes, 20
Chicken Pie, 69
Cotton-eyed Joe, 32
Cow Needs a Tail in Fly-time, The, 35
Devilish Pigs, 24
Die in the Pig-Pen Fighting, 39
Dinah’s Dinner Horn, 18
Don’t Ask Me Questions, 63
Forty-four, 71
Fox and Geese, 40
Gooseberry Wine, 41
Gray and Black Horses, 45
Ham Beats All Meat, 67
He Is my Horse, 16
Hoecake, 49
I am not Going to Hobo Any More, 70
I Love Somebody, 51
I Went down the Road, 50
I Would not Marry a Black Girl, 56
I Would not Marry a Yellow or a White Negro Girl, 63
I’d rather Be a Negro than a Poor White Man, 42
Jack and Dinah Want Freedom, 215
Jaybird, 14
Jaybird Died with the Whooping Cough, 36
Little Red Hen, 37
Little Rooster, The, 29
Master is Six Feet One Way, 40
Master’s “Stolen Coat,” The, 62
My Fiddle, 39
My Mule, 19
My Wonderful Travel, 55
Negro and the Policeman, The, 66
Nobody Looking, 48
Off from Richmond, 15
Old Gray Mink, 33
Old Hen Cackled, The, 50
Old Molly Hare, 22
Old Section Boss, The, 64
Old Woman in the Hills, The, 54
Opossum Hunt, An, 23
Plaster, 60
’Possum up the Gum Stump, 3
Promises of Freedom, 25
Rabbit Soup, 33
Raccoon and Opossum Fight, 31
Ration Day, 38
Rattler, 46
Run, Nigger, Run! 34
Sail Away, Ladies! 20
Shake the Persimmons Down, 34
Sheep and Goat, 17
Sheep Shell Corn, 59
Sick Wife, A, 55
Simon Slick’s Mule, 47
Sugar in Coffee, 30
Suze Ann, 68
Uncle Ned, 61
Walk, Tom Wilson, 68
Wanted: Cornbread and Coon, 37
We Are “All the Go”, 52
When My Wife Dies, 26
Year of Jubilee, 58
Animal and Nature Lore
Animal Attire, 158
Animal Fair, 159
Animal Persecutors, 205
Awful Harbingers, 149
Bob-White’s Song, 155
Bridle Up a Rat, 157
Buck and Berry, 172
Buck-eyed Rabbit! Whoopee! 175
Chuck Will’s Widow Song, 156
Frog in a Mill, 167
Frog Went a-Courting, 190
Full Pocketbook, A, 99
Great Owl’s Song, 151
Jaybird, 14
Judge Buzzard, 16
Last of Jack, The, 149
Little Dogs, 150
Man of Words, A, 208
Miss Terrapin and Miss Toad, 162
Molly Cottontail, 8
My Dog, Cuff, 150
My Speckled Hen, 170
Old Molly Hare, 22
Origin of the Snake, The, 165
Snail’s Reply, The, 170
Strange Brood, A, 166
Tails, 5
Town Bird and the Country Bird, The, 166
Turtle’s Song, The, 30
Why the Woodpecker’s Head is Red, 203
Nursery Rhymes
A. B. C., 154
Alabama Way, The, 164
Animal Fair, 159
Are You Careful?, 203
Aspiration, 159
Awful Harbingers, 149
Baby Wants Cherries, 181
Bat! Bat!, 202
Black-eyed Peas for Luck, 200
Blessings, 204
Bob-White’s Song, 155
Buck-eyed Rabbit! Whoopee!, 175
Butterfly, 182
Captain Coon, 176
Children’s Seating Rhyme, 179
Chuck Will’s Widow Song, 156
Cooking Dinner, 156
Crossing the River, 6
Deedle, Dumpling, 171
Destinies of Good and Bad Children, 200
Did You Feed My Cow?, 78
Don’t Sing before Breakfast, 186
Doodle-Bug, 174
End of Ten Little Negroes, The, 163
Fishing Simon, 177
Flap-jacks, 196
Four Runaway Negroes; Whence They Came, 205
Frog Went a-Courting, 190
From Slavery, 162
Getting Ten Negro Boys Together, 184
Go to Bed, 175
Good-by, Ring, 171
Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine, 173
Grasshopper-Sense, 169
Great Owl’s Song, The, 151
Guinea Gall, 176
Hated Blackbird and Crow, The, 183
Hawk and Chickens, 185
Here I Stand, 153
In ’76, 178
In a Mulberry Tree, 158
In a Rush, 183
Judge Buzzard, 16
Little Boy Who Couldn’t Count Seven, 160
Little Dogs, 150
Little Negro Fly, The, 199
Little Pickaninny, A, 186
Little Sleeping Negroes, 187
Mamma’s Darling, 188
Miss Blodger, 199
Miss Terrapin and Miss Toad, 162
Mother Says I am Six Years Old, 164
Mud-Log Pond, 185
My Baby, 180
My Dog, Cuff, 150
My Folks and your Folks, 187
My Little Pig, 157
My Speckled Hen, 170
Mysterious Face Washing, 174
Negro Baker Man, 154
Nesting, 180
Old Aunt Kate, 179
Origin of the Snake, The, 165
Paying Debts with Kicks, 184
Periwinkle, 201
Pig Tail, 153
’Possum up the Gum Stump, 3
Pretty Little Girl, 172
Pretty Pair of Chickens, A, 181
Rabbit Hash, 203
Rabbit Soup, 33
Race-Starter’s Rhyme, A, 180
Randsome Tantsome, 202
Raw Head and Bloody Bones, 174
Redhead Woodpecker, 178
Sam is a Clever Fellow, 151
Shoo! Shoo!, 196
Stealing a Ride, 188
Stick-a-ma-stew, 155
Strange Family, A, 171
Strange Old Woman, A, 178
Strong Hands, 167
Tails, 5
Taking a Walk, 183
Teaching Table Manners, 197
Too Much Watermelon, 182
Training the Boy, 201
Tree Frogs, 168
Turtle’s Song, The, 30
Two Sick Negro Boys, 173
Washing Mamma’s Dishes, 189
What Will We Do for Bacon?, 185
Wild Hog Hunt, 165
Willie Wee, 189
You Had Better Mind Master, 126
Young Master and Old Master, 169
Charms and Superstitions
Bat! Bat!, 202
Black-eyed Peas for Luck, 200
Don’t Sing before Breakfast, 186
How to Make it Rain, 101
Jaybird, 14
Molly Cottontail, or Graveyard Rabbit, 8
My Speckled Hen, 170
Periwinkle, 201
Speak Softly, 214
Hunting Songs
Fox and Geese, 40
He will Get Mr. Coon, 28
Hunting Camp, The, 43
Miss Slippy Sloppy, 100
Opossum Hunt, An, 23
Rattler, 46
Drinking Songs
Aunt Dinah Drunk, 53
Bring on your Hot Corn, 29
Little Red Hen, 37
Wise and Gnomic Sayings
Brag and Boast, 213
Don’t Tell All You Know, 214
Drinking Razor Soup, 211
Fed from the Tree of Knowledge, 212
How to Plant and Cultivate Seeds, 208
Independent, 209
Learn to Count, 207
Man of Words, A, 208
Old Man Know-all, 211
Self-control, 213
Speak Softly, 214
Still Water Runs Deep, 214
Temperance Rhyme, 209
That Hypocrite, 210
Tongue, The, 212
War is On, The, 207
Harvest Songs
Harvest Song, 57
Biblical and Religious Themes
Ark, The, 44
How to Keep or Kill the Devil, 104
Jawbone, 12
Jonah’s Band, 1
Satan, 93
Play Songs
Anchor Line, 87
Budget, A, 79
Did You Feed my Cow?, 78
Down in the Lonesome Garden, 89
Green Oak Tree! Rocky-o!, 81
Hawk and Buzzard, 75
He Loves Sugar and Tea, 84
Here Comes a Young Man Courting, 85
Kissing Song, 82
Kneel on This Carpet, 82
Likes and Dislikes, 76
Little Sister, Won’t You Marry Me?, 90
Old Black Gnats, The, 80
Peep Squirrel, 78
Precious Things, 84
Raise a “Rucus” To-night, 90
Sallie, 87
Salt-rising Bread, 83
Song to the Runaway Slave, 88
Sugar Loaf Tea, 81
Susan Jane, 77
Susie Girl, 76
Sweet Pinks and Roses, 92
Miscellaneous
Antebellum Courtship Inquiry, 135
Antebellum Marriage Proposal, 137
As I Went to Shiloh, 13
Aunt Jemima, 107
Bad Features, 100
Bedbug, 96
Blindfold Play Chant, 73
Bought Me a Wife, 145
Captain Dime, 5
Care in Bread-making, 112
Caught by the Witch Play, 74
Christmas Turkey, 98
Clandestine Letter, A, 136
Coffee Grows on White Folks’ Trees, 107
College Ox, The, 112
Courtship, 138
Crooked Nose Jane, 99
Crossing a Foot-Log, 109
Day’s Happiness, A, 125
Destitute Former Slave Owners, 97
Do I Love You?, 129
Does Money Talk?, 113
Elephant, The, 116
Fattening Frogs for Snakes, 97
Few Negroes by States, A, 117
Fine Plaster, A, 124
Fox and Geese Play, 73
Fox and Rabbit Drinking Proposition, 111
Frightened Away from a Chicken-Roost, 95
Going to be Good Slaves, 101
Good-by, Wife!, 148
Goosie-Gander Play Rhyme, 75
Half Way Doings, 120
Hawk and Chickens Play, 74
He Paid Me Seven (Parody), 122
Hear-say, 114
How to Get to Glory Land, 96
How to Please a Preacher, 117
I Walked the Road, 139
I’ll Eat when I’m Hungry, 114
I’ll Get You, Rabbit!, 116
I’ll Wear Me a Cotton Dress, 118
I’m a “Round-Town” Gentleman, 108
If You Frown, 137
Indian Flea, 12
Invited to Take the Escort’s Arm, 135
Joe and Malinda Jane, 4
John Henry, 105
Johnny Bigfoot, 93
Juba, 9
Jump Jim Crow, 13
Kept Busy, 109
Let’s Marry Courtship, 138
Looking for a Fight, 118
Love is Just a Thing of Fancy, 2
Mule’s Kick, The, 98
Mule’s Nature, The, 108
Negro Soldier’s Civil War Chant, 115
Negroes Never Die, 11
Newly Weds, The, 144
No Room to Poke Fun, 99
On Top of the Pot, 10
Our Old Mule, 112
Outrunning the Devil, 103
Page’s Geese, 102
Parody—He Paid Me Seven, 122
Parody on “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep”, 115
Parody on “Reign, Master Jesus! Reign!”, 122
Presenting a Hat to Phoebe, 140
Pretty Little Pink, 127
Rascal, The, 106
Request to Sell, A, 123
Sex Laugh, 102
Short Letter, A, 113
Slave Marriage Ceremony Supplement, 143
Sparking or Courting, 136
Stand Back, Black Man, 10
Still Water Creek, 2
“They Steal” Gossip, 110
This Sun is Hot, 108
Thrifty Slave, The, 94
To Win a Yellow Girl, 102
Turkey Funeral, 111
T-U-Turkey, 6
Two Times One, 121
Uncle Jerry Fants, 109
Walk, Talk, Chicken With your Head Pecked, 4
We’ll Stick to the Hoe, 123
When I Go to Marry, 144
When I Was a Roustabout, 145
Why Look at Me?, 113
Wild Negro Bill, 94
Wind Bag, A, 101