JIM CROW'S TRIP TO THE ROYAL WEDDING

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I am come again to visit you as you may see and know
To the royal wedding they've invited Jim Crow

cho: So you see you English men and maids so buxom and so keen
Jim Crow has been invited to the wedding of the Queen

I toddled from Kentucky last Monday morning soon
and came by steam to England in a paper bag balloon

I landed at de tower, and the guns begin to blow
When the ladies run from every part to see Jim Crow

Den I got into a donkey cart, and to Buckingham palace quick did go
When the lords and ladies hollar, "here is King Jim Crow"

I said "where is her Majesty," said the Duke, "she's down below,"
"Den I say tell her come directly, to King Jim crow."

She come out like an angel so charming and so fair,
and I say, "God bless your Majesty, my pretty little dear."

I say "I understand my lady, as a long you have single tarried
To change your situation you, Are going to get married."

"Indeed I am," she said to me, in a sweet and pleasant tone
De weather is so very cold, I cannot lie alone.

Den I say you are the prettiest girl in all the world I know,
And I wish wid me you would agree, and marry Jim Crow

I'd make the toast and fiddle, and learn you for to sing,
And fetech you every noon a tea-cup full of gin

I will wash de clothes and mangle and attend upon de door
Tie up your shoes and lace your stays, and scrub the kitchen floor

She say Jim Crow it is no use for you here is no room
Den she game me such a topper with the handle of de broom

I tell you what Jim Crow she said, with the youth I have engaged,
Prince Albert Young and charming, and but 20 years of age.

God bless her gracious Majesty, she is both young and clever
Jim Crow pray both night and day dat she may live for ever

Den wheel about and turn about, and sing both high and low,
God bless the Queen of England, and jump Jim Crow.

A truly weird, sick song, c1840's? 1850's? Of English origin, from Bodelian.

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Feb07
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