Negro Melodies Plantation Pieces, Camp Meeting Songs and Poems &c

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	Plantation Pieces, Camp Meeting Songs
	THE MULE I sing in simple language— The virtues of a beast, On whom the praises languish And on whom the idyls cease; A paragon of patience The best you ever saw, He may not be a beauty— But he's honest to the core.
	Just hitch him to a mountain— And tap him with the whip, And you'll see that mountain rolling And you'll see that mountain slip; And all he wants is fodder And a bedding in the straw, And he may not be a beauty— But he's honest to the core.
	Up the hill, and down the hill He'll amble with his load, But you must urge him gently And don't use too much the goad; And if he stoops to folly— What is his balking for? But a protest to his master That he's honest to the core.
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