Ex-s1av~ $tories	Page Three	8:1
(Texas)






t‘ ‘Would you like to hear my song?
Itm ‘frald. its rather long
Of de “On to Richmond,‘ double trouble,
Of de half a dozen tripe
A.nd de half a dozen s1ips~
4M de latest bu~tin‘ of de b~ibble.

“‘Ptill off yOU coat and roll up you sleeve,
l‘or Richin oth am a hard road t o travel
~	Then 1)~1l off you coat and roll up you sleeve, For Richmond aa a hard road to travel.‘


	“Dey m~tng dat song to de old tune cal). ‚ Old Roe in de Beau.‘

	“De war ends and in de few months old massa sot he slaves free. He give my peppy some money and he starte out for heseif. He goes to Milliga~i and rents land and raises he fam‘ly. Old. Ïasaa never goes back to Richsiond. De Yanks gltB what he left so dey no u~e gwine back dere. He lives in franklin till 1914. It ain‘t like Old Tirginny, 1~it dey‘s plenty wild game and hawg. and he raises a bale 0±‘ cotton to de acre ‚ so he have money once more.

	NDe~!Ia folks commt to Texas all de time from de old states. It am de new w~rld and dey ltkes it. Dey has de Juneteenth cel‘bratione after ‘while, and de white folks gives us beeves and hawgs to barbeoue, so Texas em de good place to stay.

	“When I‘s ‘bout growed, I starts workin‘ on de I. & G. N. railroad and helps build it fro~u Kouston tnt o ~Vaco . I works for it for years and years, and all~a lives near de Bra:os River. l‘s lived here in Mart forty years.

	“I doesn‘t have de bitter ~em‘riea like so~.e de niggera, ‘Cause Old massa allus good to us. I‘s had de good life and sa ‘bout ready to

go to Kebben, and hopes I can see Old Massa dere.