Also, I can't resist it. Yes, I'm yielding to temptation by posting this verse:

Some folks say de Debbil's dead
and buried in a shoe.
But I seed de Debbil de' other day
And he looks jus' as good as you.


[excerpted from "Bile Dem Cabbage Down" found in Dorothy Scarborough's 1925 book "On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs";
Folklore Associates edition, 1963,p.125]