Ain't no cane on the Brazis.
They done ground it all up in molasses.

Load up the carriage and break on down,
Come on bullies, let's make another round.

Nigger jumped in the Brazis he's bound to drown.
He left me to roll right off of the ground.

Ain't no more cane on this Brazis.
Ain't no more cane on this Brazis.

It;s grounded all up in molasses.
It's grounded all up in molasses.

The second verse I think talks about going out to the fields to work. Often prisoners would walk to the fields, but sometimes they went on a wagon. So the first line says lets get on the wagon and go to work. OR it might be that "load up the carriage" is "cute" way to way "let's line up and walk to work." In the next line, "bullies" was a common referent to fellow prisoners. So it's saying C'mon guys lets start work. For the workers, it was often hoeing one long row, reaching the end, and turning around and doing another row in the opposite direction.

I think Roberto had the first line of the third verse correct. The second line I am sure includes the word "roll" which was a slang synonym for "work". The man who drowned just left the singer more work to do.

I will try and attack the other version at another time. I have referred in the past to the deciphering of black rural dialect in the early 20th century in blues and work songs as Aural Rorschach, you hear what you want to hear. I've just added my interpretation.

Big RiB