Part 4 — CLXXXI.
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Notty Shaw, you better go home; Notty Shaw, you better go home; Notty, run in the garden an' pick a bunch of flowers; Notty Shaw, you better go home; Notty Shaw, you mother want you service; Notty Shaw, you mother want you service; Notty, go in the garden you see a bunch of rose; Notty Shaw, you better go home.
"Notty" is short for Nathaniel.
"Rose" means any kind of flowers. When they want to indicate what we call roses they say "sweet-rose."