Lyr. Add: Gal From the South
Campbell Minstrels, music by L. V. H. Crosby
Firth Pond & Co., c. 1850

Old massa own'd a coloured gall,
He bought her at de south,
Her hair it curl'd so bery tight,
She couldent shut her mouth.
Her eyes dey were so bery big,
Dey both run unto one,
Sometimes a fly lights in her eye,
Like a junebug on de sun.

Chorus.
Yah, ha, ha, yah, ha, ha,
De gall from de south,
Her hair it curl'd so bery tight,
She coud'nt shut her mouth.

Her nose it was so bery long,
It made me laugh by gosh;
For when she got her dander up,
It turned up like a squash,
Old massa had no hooks or nails,
Nor nothing like ob dat;
So on dis darky's nose he used
To hang his coat and hat,

Chorus

One morning massa gwain away,
He went to get his coat,
But nedder hat, nor coat, could find,
For she had swollow'd both;
He took her to a tailor's shop,
To hab her mouth made small;
De Lady took in one long breath,
And swollow'd tailor and all,

Chorus

Sheet music at Brown University, African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920.
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