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448 Ballads and Songs of Michigan
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THE HISTORIAN
This is a version of what Sandburg, pp. 330-331, calls "a vest pocket encyclopedia." It is slightly suggestive of "Darky Sunday School," Lomax and Lomax,
PP. 351-354- . .
The present version was obtained by Mrs. Lillian Ammerman, Detroit, from a Negro boy of fifteen in the Detention Home, Detroit. He had learned the song from hearing it sung in "jungles" where he had stayed.
I was bom a hnn - drcd thou - sand years a-
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go, And there's not a thing in his - t'ry I don't
know I saw Pe - ter, Paul, and Mo - ses play - ing
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i I was born a hundred thousand years ago, And therms not a thing in hist'ry I don't know. I saw Peter, Paul, and Moses playing "Ring Around the
Roses," And I'll shoot the guy who says it isn't so.
2 I saw Absalom hanging by his hair;
When they built the wall o£ China, I was there. I saved King Solomon's life; so he offered me a wife. I said, "Now you're talking business, have a chair."
3 I saw Adam and Eve a-driven from, their door; I'm the guy that picked the fig leaves that they wore. While the apple they were eating, I was 'round the
corner peeking; I can prove that I'm the guy that ate the core. |
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