Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect Poems by Elliott Blaine Henderson - HTML preview
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Chicken stew
Was all I said.
Made dat coon
Hop out o’ bed,
Butt his head
Ergin de wall
Kooden’ stan’
De thing at all.
Jes’ dat menshun,
Jes’ dat talk,
Made dat coon’s
Eyes white ez chawk.
Looked eroun’
An’ licked his chops
Ez doh he hyeahd
Dey wings flopp! flopp!
Well, dem wurds,
Dey struck dat coon
Lak er ’lectric
Shock in June!
Kooden’ sleep
No mo’ dat night,
Rolled an’ tossed
Until daylight.
