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Thread #98058   Message #1937662
Posted By: Azizi
15-Jan-07 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: Secular Songs From Spirituals
Subject: RE: Secular Songs From Spirituals
This parody of a spiritual is included in Thomas W. Talley's 1922 collection "Negro Folk Rhymes" [Kennikat Press edition, p. 122]

PARODY ON "REIGN, MASTER JESUS,REIGH!"

Oh rain! oh rain! Oh rain, "good" Mosser!
Rain, Mosser, rain! Rain hard!
Eain flour a' lard an' a big hog head
Down in my back yard.

An' we'n you comes down to my cabin,
Come down by de corn fiel'.
If you cain't bring me a piece o' meat,
Den bring me a peck o' meal.

Oh rain! Oh rain! Oh rain, "good" Mosser!
Dat good rain gives mo' rest.
"What d'you say? You N----, dar!
"Wet ground grows grass best."