Unker Isrel (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
De people call me er kunger,Jes kase I du sum tricks;Jes, kase I'se got dis lucky black bone.Kan't gedder rutes ...
De people call me er kunger,Jes kase I du sum tricks;Jes, kase I'se got dis lucky black bone.Kan't gedder rutes ...
Thanksgibin' day am now at han'In my imagination,I see de tuckies take a stan'Aroun' de ol' plantation.En jis befo' dis ...
As Rueben wor smookin his pipe tother neet, Bi th' corner o'th' little "Slip Inn;"He spied some fowk marchin, an fancied ...
It's a sunny pleasant anchorage is Kingdom ComeWhere the crew is always layin' aft with double-tots o' rum'N' there's dancin' ...
(From a Westerner's Point of View.) No matter what you call it, Whether genius, or art, He sings the simple songs that come The ...
Home, Sweet Home. I'm a Bedfordshire Chap, and Bill Stumps is my name, And to tell it don't give me ...
Sowin' things an' growin' things, an' watchin' of 'em grow;That's the game, my father said, an' father ought to know."Settin' ...
'TWAS down in Honolulu, Way off one night afar, The sea-breeze comin' cooler Across the coral bar, When Lulu's eyes ...
I shut my eyes to rest 'em, just a bit ago it seems,An' back among the Cotswolds I ...
Apples on the table an' the grate-fire blazin' high,Oh, I'm sure the whole world hasn't any happier man than I;The ...
BEIN' uncle to the kids,Laughin' lips an' drowsy lidsGrimy hands an' tattered clothes,Cheeks as red as any rose;Willie Browns an' ...
There was weepin' by the women that the crowd could plainly see, An' old William's throat was chokin' an' his ...
Year ain't been the very best;— Purty hard by trouble pressed; But the rough way leads to rest,— Here's ...
Droppin' down to Rio on a buckin' wooden tramp;Takin' water for'r'd till her rotten planks were damp;Pitchin' like a bronco ...
You want to know what's the matter with me, do yer? My! ain't men blinder'n moles? It ain't nothin' new, ...
(Mobile Columns of the Boer War) Out o' the wilderness, dusty an' dry (Time, an' 'igh time to be trekkin' ...
Seen my lady home las' night, Jump back, honey, jump back. Hel' huh han' an' sque'z it tight, Jump back, ...
O the Raggedy Man! He works fer Pa; An' he's the goodest man ever you saw! He comes to our ...
You've heard of Violet de Vere, strip-teaser of renown, Whose sitting-base out-faired the face of any girl in town; Well, ...
I'M travellin' down the Castlereagh, and I'm a station hand, I'm handy with the ropin' pole, I'm handy with the ...
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