Guess Question & Joe:

See this post about "Raise A Rucus Tonight" that may be the source of the "Three Little Angels" song:

Subject: RE: Wearing Red-or another color
From: Azizi - PM
Date: 30 Apr 06 - 11:10 PM

Tally includes the song "Raise A Rucus Tonight" in his 1922 book of "Negro Folk Rhymes"

The first verse of that song is:

Two liddle N----rs all dressed in white,
{Raise a Rucus tonight.}
Want to go to Heaben on de tail of a kite.
{Raise a Rucus tonight.}
De kite string broke; dem N----rs fell;
{Raise a Rucus tonight.}
Whar dem N----rs go, I hain't gwineter tell.
{Raise a Rucus tonight.}

-snip-

This song lives on in an African American profanity avoidance children's rhyme:

TEN LITTLE ANGELS
ten little angel all dressed in white
tryin to get to heaven on a tail of a kite
[but] the kite string broke and down they fell
instead of goin to heaven they went to

nine little angels all dressed in white
tryin to get to heaven on a tail of a kite
the kite string brok and down they fell
instead of goin to heaven they went to

[continue through to "one little angel".

In 2000 Pittsburgh, PA I heard some children shout "HELL" at the end of this rhyme. But usually, I've heard the rhyme end with "to bed".

Wearing Red -or another color


Of course, this may not be the "Three Little Angels" song that Guest Question is inquiring about.

But then again, it might be.

:o}