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Thread #91646   Message #1744535
Posted By: Azizi
20-May-06 - 01:47 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs about Big Feet
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about Big Feet
Well, maybe this isn't an insult. But maybe it is. What do your think?

BUFFALO GALS {excerpt}
As I was lumb'ring down de street,
down de street, down de street,
A han'some gal I chanced to meet,
Oh, she was fair to view!

Chorus:
Buffalo gals, can't you come out tonight,
Can't you come out tonight,
Can't you come out tonght?
Buffalo gals, can't you come out ton-night,
And dance by de light ob de moon?

I axed her would she hab some talk.
Hab some talk, hab some talk.
Her feet covered up de whole sidewalk,
As she stood close to me.
-snip-

Dorothy Scarborough "On The Trails Of Negro Folk Songs" {Folklore Associates Edition, 1963; p. 113; originally published by Harvard University Press, 1925}