%images; ]> scsm-000065 Massa Linkum's boy : song & chorus / by Malcolm S. Gordon [and H. Parker] ...: a machine readable transcription. STERN COLLECTION OF LINCOLNIANA, Library of Congress Selected and converted. American Memory, Library of Congress.

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Massa Linkum's Boy.

Dar's a new song round us floating, Dat de darkies all will sing, You will hear it in de cornfields And de cane brakes with it ring. For der new song is de bestest And it fills de heart wid joy, We are gwine to hab for Presumdent, Good old Massa Linkum's boy.

Chorus: O darkies come and join de song, For it fills de heart with joy; We'se a gwine to hab for Presumdent, Good ole Massa Linkum's Boy.

Massa Linkum when he left us, Lef young Massa Robert stay; Lef de boy dat he might help us, An he's bown to win de day. An befo' his fadder left us He sot ebry darky free, Gave us back our wives and children, Made de darkies' jubilee.

Massa Linkum's chile, and chillen! Lor, let this pore darkey lib Till his eyes hab seen de glory Dat his fadder died to gib! See Ole Massa up in glory! Lor' doan you see him smile As he hears de darkies singing, An' a votin' for his chile!

So de cane brakes wid de music Will echo night and morn, And de cotton blows will rustle Like de tossels on de corn; And de mockbird in de hedges, Answer back de darkies' joy, And de jubilee foreber Comes wid Massa Linkum's boy.