73. The Singing Bird. [Note]
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73. The Singing Bird. [Note]
a. Fine Waiting Boy.
Alfred Williams, Maroon Town.
♩ = 84
Fine wait-in’ boy, fine wait-in’ boy, Throw his mas-ter in-to a well, Col-lin, Col-lin, no ben see da lit-tle bird up-on tree so long?
When de missus hear de little bird singing so, couldn’t understand, called a sensible person understand de bird. An’ go search de well, fin’ de master body, an’ go tak Collin hang him.
b. The Golden Cage.
William Harris, Maggotty.
A king had a daughter. He had two servants who did not like the daughter. One day the two servants were going to the well for water and the daughter said she wanted to go with them. And they catch the little girl and cast her in the well. Three days after, the little girl went home to her father an’ the father catch the two servants and throw them in the well. And he get his child and thus end the story.
♩ = 84
Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep. I brought a news to tell you. Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep. I brought a news to tell you. Miss Chee Chee take you, one dear love an’ cast her in-to a well. Be qui-et, be qui-et, I will make a gold-en cage an’ put you in-to it. No, no, no, no. Same me will do it to dear love too, you will do with me the same.