[Warning: contains racial content. Original presented as part of music history.]
The prettiest of Negro melodies, 1895.
Words and music by Edith Kingsley.
The sheet music:
Lyrics
1. Dis nigger ain’t nobody’s fool
Oh! my law
Go on a hitchen up dat mule
Oh! my law
Cause we’s a gwine way upon high
Oh! my law
We’s gwine a swingin’ in de sky
Oh! my law
Chorus
Then run you little niggers run
We’s gwine to have a lot of fun
Swingin’ in de sky
Den climb you little niggers climb
We’s gwine to hab a jolly time
Swingin’ in de sky
Oh! dar’ll be dancin’, singin’
Banjo’s ringin’ up dar in de sky
You’ll hab to roll out seven
Please come ‘leven swingin’ in de sky
2. Now go to sleep, don’t hab to wake
Oh! my law
Eat all de fros’ten off de cake
Oh! my law
Put on your Sunday bib and tuck
Oh! my law
If you don’t you’ll loose your luck
Oh! my law
3. Dar’s gwine to be a lazy coon
Oh! my law
A shootin’ craps upon de moon
Oh! my law
Take all de kink out of your hair
Oh! my law
Because you needn’t pay no fare
Oh! my law
Sung here by Fred Feild: