Another minstrel/dance hall song, this one's message pretty heavy-handed. It's apparently aimed at blacks, or else intended to make whites think that blacks should have the mindset described. Not dated, but from the lyrics it was obviously written during the war!...

Where will I go
When dis War
BREAKS DIS COUNTRY UP.

Oh! where will I go when dis war breaks dis country up
And darkies have to scatter around?
This damned Bobolition, mancipation, and Secession
Am a going to run the nigger in the ground;
It's Bobolition here,
And Secession dare,
And neither one or t'other ob 'em's right,
One says dis,
Another says dat,
And dey both got de Country in a fight;
Den, what's a poor nigger going to do;

Oh! what is the use ob dis gangulating, fighting,
Botheration to de Country so forlorn:
Why don't dey tend to business, building boats and making railroads
While de darkies raise the cotton and the corn?
But it's Massachusetts here,
And South-Carolina dare,
Disturb dis happy Union with dare growl;
One says you shall,
De other says you shan't:
And Uncle Sam has got to stand it all;
Now what can a poor nigger do?

What a deuced shame it is, this Secession revolution
Am a using up de business ob de land;
Trade and navigation, merchandising speculation
Have very nearly come to [an end?]
De crops won't be sow'd
De meadows won't be [mow'd]
Kase dares nobody left for to tend 'em:
Dar's scarcity, it seems,
Ob Cabbage, Peas, and Beans,
Kase dar's nobody home for to tend 'em:
Den what's a poor hungry nigger going to do?

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J. H. Johnson, Song Publisher, 7 N. 10th St. Philadelphia.

'Where Will I Go...' from American Memory site