Thanks so much for posting the lyrics to this song! My grandmother (born in Iowa in 1889) also sang this song (and "Nobody's Child") and we were always blubbering by the end of the songs! My grandmother did clean it up a bit--she always sang "Little black boy like you" instead of "little coon", and did not really use the dialect as evidently was in the original song. The song had a profound effect on me and my siblings--I know we always strived to be kind to people who were different from us, remembering the pain of the little boy in the song.