A most Popular Banjo Song, 1844
words and music–anonymous
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:
Lyrics
- Monday was my wedding day
Tuesday I was married
Wen’sdy night my wife took sick
Sat’day she was buried
Chorus
Oh! looky har, Oh! looky whar
Look right ober yander
Don’t you see de Ole Grey Goose
Smiling at de Gander
- Wen’sday night my wife took sick
Despair ob death cum o’er her
O! some did cry, but I did laff
To see dat death go from her - I ask Miss Dinah Rose one day
In de ole cart to ride
She war by gosh so bery fat
I couldn’t sit beside her - Whenshe was gittin out de cart
Miss Dinah loose her shoe
And den I spied a great big hole
Right in her stocking through - Says I to her: you Dinah Gal
Only looky dar
Dem heels are sticking out too far
As a niggar I declar - Says she to me you nigger Jo
What are you about
Dere’s science in dem are heels
And I want em to stick out.