The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24017   Message #2664578
Posted By: curmudgeon
25-Jun-09 - 02:59 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Colored Aristocracy
Subject: RE: Colored Aristocracy?
Barry, I wasn't referring to you. The song you just mentioned sounds like "Jubilo, aka "The Kingdom Comin," by Henry Clay Work.

Say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa,
Wid de muff-stash on his face,
Go long the road some time dis mornin'
Like he gwine to leab de place?
He seen a smoke, 'way up the ribber
Whar the Linkum gunboats lay;
He took his hat an' lef' berry sudden
An' I spec he's run away!

cho: De massa run? Ha ha!
De darkeys stay? Ho ho!
It mus' be now de kingdom comin'
An' de year ob Jubilo!