========== 1. Fare you well, my little nigger baby, with the BLACK-FACED shining eyes. (may be "brightly", but this seems apt.) You're just as good as a railroad bum in the sweet by-and-by. BLACKS ALL KNOW YOU WAS BORN THAT WAY, WITH THE (?) OF A THIEF; Somebody's little nigger baby, going down DECATUR STREET.
2. I know he is a very bad COON, for I am one myself. I tote my razor in my hand, my pistol in my belt. I'm on my way to glory, Lord; I'm riding through the sky, Somebody's little nigger baby in the sweet by-and-by.
3. See that train a-coming; it's coming round the curve. It's PUFFING, it's blowing; it's SPRINGING/STRAINING(?) every nerve. The engineer said to the fireman, chunk in a little more coal. I'm bound to run this engine in some dark and lonesome hole.
4. Little Sally Walker, she's sitting in the sun. She's a-weeping, she's a-mourning, ever since I've been gone. She's a-weeping, she's a-mourning, and sweet as a lamb. Somebody's little nigger baby way down in Alabam'.
5. Catching my mule ? A SADDLE on him and I hopped up on his back. I POPPED my WHIP AND hollered; oh, sinners, clear the track. I'm on my way to glory, Lord; I'm riding through the sky, Somebody's little nigger baby, in the sweet by-and-by