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Thread #123870   Message #2731548
Posted By: Azizi
25-Sep-09 - 10:37 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye
Subject: RE: Origins: Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye
Here's the song/poem from Talley's collection that is mentioned in the link that Stewie gave:

STILL WATER CREEK

'Way down yon'er on Still Water Creek,
I got stalded an' stayed a week.
I see'd Injun Puddin and Punkin pie,
But de black cat stick 'em in de yaller cat's eye.

'Way down yon'er on Still Water Creek,
De N****rs grows up some ten or twelve feet.
Dey goes to bed but dere hain't no use,
'Cause deir feet sticks out fer de chickens t' rouse.

I got hongry on Still Water Creek,
Se mud to de hub an' de hoss britchin weak.
I stewed bullfrog chitlins, baked polecat pie;
If I goes back dar, I sho's gwine die.

[Thomas W, Talley, Negro Folk Songs, Wise And Otherwise (Kennikat Press edition, 1968, p. 2; originally published The Macmillan Company ,1922)


* I used asterisks instead of spelling the "n word" out, as it appears in that book.