%images; ]> scsm-000012 Oh! massa's gwine to Washington / written by Edmund Kirke, author of Among the pines ; music by C.S. Brainard ...: a machine readable transcription. STERN COLLECTION OF LINCOLNIANA, Library of Congress Selected and converted. American Memory, Library of Congress.

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Oh! Massa's Gwine to Washington

Hark! darkies, hark! it am de drum Dat calls ole Massa 'way from hum, Wid powder-pouch and loaded gun, To drive old Abe from Washington;

Chorus: Oh! Massa's gwine to Washington, So clare de way for Washington, Oh! wont dis darky hab sum fun, When Massa's gwine to Washington! Oh! Massa's gwine to Washington, So clare de way for Washington, [Soprano:] Oh! wont dis darky hab sum fun, When Massa's gwine to Washington! [Alto:] Oh! long afore de mornin' sun Ole Massa's gwine to Washington! [Tenor:] Oh! wont dis darky cut and run, When Massa's gets to Washington! [Bass:] Ole Abe will let the darkies run When Massa gets to Washington."

Dis darky know what Massa do; He take him long to brack him shoe, To black him shoe and tote him gun, When he am 'way to Washington.

Ole Massa say ole Abe will eat De niggas all excep' de feet, De feet may be, will cut and run, When Massa gets to Washington,

'Dis nigga know ole Abe will save His brudder man, de darky slave, And dat he'll let him cut and run, When Massa gets to Washington.