Green Grass versions-
Talley, "Negro Folk Rhymes," has another fragment.

No. 287 Taking a Walk

We's a-walkin' in de green grass *dust, dust, dust.
We's a-walkin' in the green grass dust.
If you's jes as sweet as I thinks you to be,
I'll take you by yo' liddle hand to walk wid you.

* See post by Azizi, 24 Apr 05, above. Botkin and Newell say 'dust' is a corruption of the Scots (Old English) adist, meaning 'this way, come hither.'
In a reference I haven't seen, Clarke reported the song from Virginia Negroes in JAFL, 3:288.

Lyr. Add: Walking on the Green Grass

Walkin' on the green grass,
Dusty, dusty, dust.*
Come all ye handsome ladies
An' present to me your hand (paw).
Oh, you're not so very handsome,
But take you if you please.
I'll take you by your lily-white hand,
An' walk the **chalk with me.

Chorus:
**Walk the chalk, the butter an' cheese,
Oh, walk the chalk, the candy.
Walk the chalk, the butter an' cheese,
An' swing those girls so handy.

The road is wide an' you can't step it.
I love you an' you can't he'p it.

The rose's red an' violet's blue.
Sugar's sweet an' so are you.

Oh, the sea is deep and full of salt.
If we don't marry, it'll be your fault.

The road is long an' full of gravel.
By your side I'm bound to travel.

The road is long an' full of crooks.
I hope some day you'll be my cook.

*Dusty-from adist: this way, come hither.
**Walk the chalk- to go or move, especially away, quickly; to depart quickly. J. E. Lighter, "Historical Dictionary of American Slang, vol. 1, p. 376 (this meaning in print by 1840).

With music. Sung by Leondis Brown, Cleveland County, Oklahoma ("It doesn't make any difference which one of these comes first. Whenever I get to singin' 'em at a party, I can think of 'em better."). Also collected in Texas.
B. A. Botkin, 1937, 1963, "The American Play-Party Song," no. 118A, pp. 344-345.