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'Kase you come to raise the debil here,
And jump Jim Crow.
Veel about, &c.

So I crept through de window
And sat myself a-down,
Broder Clem gub out de text,
Den dey hand dey plate around.
Veel about, &c.

In de ninety-leventh chapter
Of de new Almanack,
Dare it tell you all about
De white man and black.
Veel about, &c.

He say dat Cain was de fuss man,
Julycome Caesar was de toder—
Dey put Adam on de treden mill,
’Kase he kill him broder.
Veel about, &c.

And dea dat Mr. Sampson
Was de man dat build de ark,
Mr. Jonas was de fisherman
Who swallow up de shark.
Veel about, &c.

De rain pour down forty days,

By de sailors' counting,