Every Tongue Got to Confess (22 page)
- Free men ain’t got [illegible]
- Four men who betrayed dey friend
- The Monkey and the Camel
- The Lion and the Rabbit
- The Orphan Boy and Girl and the Witches
- The Six Fools
- The Man, the Woman and the Ready-to-Tame
- The Devil and the Rabbit
- Why the Bear Has No Tail Long Poem
- Have you heard about the wreck?
- I seen a man so black
- I seen a man so ugly
- I seen a man so ugly he didn’t die
- I saw a man so ugly till at night
- I seen a railroad so crooked
- I saw a country so hilly
- I saw a country so hilly till they shoot the corn
- I saw a man shoot another with a gun
- I saw a man so ugly
- Once there was a rabbit and uh bear
- A man and his wife had a colt
- A man had a wife and she was so small
- A man went hunting
- The First Man
- In slavery time there was a man by the name of Tom
- There wuz a man in slavery time always meddling
- Once there was an old man, woman and boy
- Once there was a man and the preacher came to his house
- Man who stole hogs
- The mule had sprouted little jackasses
- Man who didn’t know what corn was
- “Son step on the zillerator!”
- Saving for Mr. Hard Time
- Old man, wife and hogs
- Burning creek and trout
- Man who bradded mosquito bills
- I seen a man so ugly
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- I seen a horse so poor
- I seen a horse so poor
- I seen a mule so poor
- I saw a horse so poor
- Once I was an engineer on train
- Rockefeller and Ford was woofing
- There was a man so stingy
- I knowed a man and he was formen and he was so stingy
- Man so smart he had the 7 year itch
- Once there was a man had a daughter
- Sellin’ roasting ears in heaven
- Barrel swell up and burst wid rain
- Once there wuz a boiler across de river
- De Lawd is Comin’ By
- Mississippi River and de punkin tree
- On hobo trip in Texas
- Hard Wind
- Juice of watermelon caused de rain flood
- Moon toting a light for de sun
- Fish came swimming up the road
- Once I wuz out batching
- De little black gnat
- Paul and de ½ pint shinny
- Ole colored man and de gold watch
- Ant Dinah on de Coolin Board
- De man who heard Gabriel and cussed
- De men who beat dere shadders
- Catfish who drowned in sweat
- John, Bill, and de ole Master
- Snail crossing the road
- Story of de Jonah
- How Disa Abraham, Fadda de Faithful
- “Got 1000 tongues”
- Rev. Full Bosom and the mourners
- It taken 9 partridges to holler Bob White
- 2 revival preachers and “the doleful sound”
- Man who wanted to catchup with his wife
- Little boy who raised hell in basket
- “I am snake bit”
- The butt head cow’s horns
- I have seen it so cold
- “I tole you to notice hogs—”
- “Your breath smells mighty dam bad”
- In Miss. a black horse run away with white lady
- Steam from locomotive wuz milkin’ cows”—
- Train in N. Orleans
- Ala. River running so fast
- “I done set de world on fire” (fox)
- Five men want six orders
- Car, mosquito, and flea
- “Can’t you tell a white man from a Negro”
- “Shoot the gas to her son, I got the steering gear”
- Ole Master and John and God dam
- Colored man and billy goat
- John and Ole Massa and lightnin
- The boy and the cow
- 3 girls, judge, and rabbit
- The meanest man
- Fishing on Sunday
- Why Negroes are black
- “God ain’t worth a dam when a bear”—
- Man who stole oil from heaven’s lamps
- Preacher and de lamp eel
- Why Americans are not in war
- Hen who gave rooster the blues
- “Oh hell, I’ll steal Thou”
- Dady so small, bedbug pitcher
- “Baa, ba”
- Why all lady people got devil in them
- “Boots or no boots”
- Once there was a man so lazy
- Took 1 match sit the river on fire
- “I wanted you to work on my wife’s teeth”
- Lady and bad polly
- The Tall Man
- When he want it to rain
- “God grant it”—“God dam it”
- De witch who stole boy’s money
- John and Massa and whut’s under de wash pot
- John, Massa and swimming bluff
- Rabbit, elephant, fox frolic
- “Stay on board lil childen”
- The Shortest Man
- The Biggest Cabbage
- The Hanted House
- An dey all got different daddies
- Ole Massa and nigger deer-hunting
- Niggers is so skeered uh white folks
- Uncle and heavenly blackboard
- The seed-tick
- Why Negroes Have Nothing
- Mosquito bills
- Tin suits tuh keep de skeeters off
- De White Man’s Prayer
- What is the biggest chickens you ever saw
- Uh sweet potato so big
- “If Thou be God…Youse cholkin me tuh death”
- Boll Weevil
- 5 gallon demijohn—uh goody, goody, goody
- The little boy and his grandma
- Why de Gator Got No Tongue
- Why de Gator is Black
- Two men out huntin de little dog an de rabbit
- Man and girl and picked chickens
- Ole massa and nigger visitin’ girl
- Tarrypin an’ fox run race for girl
- The Boy from Hell
- Why God Made Adam Last
- Ole Massa and John an’ de bear
- Goat an’ tobacco truck
- If dat my child, where…gold teeth
- Man went huntin’ wid one uh dese muzzle-loaders
- Cat an’ de liver an’ de gizzard
- “I lends an’ borries, too”
- De Reason de Woodpecker Got Uh Red Head
- De sworn hunter buddies an’ de deer liver
- “Yuh got tuh gum it lak hell”
- De men dat melted in Miami
- De devil don’t do everything they say
- De Hongry Bear
- De Preacher an de Sheep’s Tails
- De bullet from de 44–40 an’ de echo
- Skeeter an’ de Hominy Pot
- De tallest man
- “Stick uh needle up in de ground”—
- There wuz uh man so ugly
- [not legible in the original manuscript]
- De Flyin’ Negro
- Why a parrot drops dead
- Big Talk
- The man who forgot God’s name
- “If you take up time…you won’t be nothin.”
- I’d go some here and keep books for somebody
- 4 niggers and de blacksmith shop
- “Papa’s head so lousy”
- 3 bluebirds
- Why they use raw hide on mules
- Monkey and dog
- [not legible in the original manuscript]
- “Raccoon”
- Jesus Christ and de $98
- “Don’t send dat boy Jesus”
- [not legible in the original manuscript]
- Free slave and de panter
- So dey had de picnic and not de wimming match
- The Bull and God
- Everytime ma cook eggs, pa cuts de Damn fool
- “You kin have it I don’t need it”
- “Hold ’im Ned”
- “6 months for yo’ skillet”
- “Squealin’ Jenny”
- 2 boys and de biggest lie
- Cryin’ for stale biscuit
- Two mens and de bear
- Why we Squinch (Screech) Owls
- Ole Marster, corn field, and bear
- John an’ Massa’s ridin’ horse
- Brer Rabbit and Brer Dog and Convention
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- Ole woman (Scat you rascal!)
- Monkey: My people, my people”
- “Tongue brought me here”—
- From Pine to Pine
- De brothers an’ de persimmons
- “Long as dere’s limb, dere’s ropes”
- It wuz so hot once a cake of ice…”
- It wuz de moon changin’
- De Gopher in Court
- When de weather gits hot de gopher—
- Poor Land
- Rich Land
- De peas grunting trying to git out de ground—
- A Hunter
- A lady so cross-eyed
- A woman so black
- He’d shoot and den put up a target—
- De honey sweetened de river
- “Found dead in de woods—bit by a r. Snake”
- Hog in de Cradle
- I seen a man so black
- I seen a man so tough
- How come de gator hate de dog
- Cat and dog race
- Why we have Thanksgiving
- The long horse and pig that died from old age
- Lady with donkey, cat, rooster
- Grandmother with large family
- Beans and the Girl
- [not legible in the original manuscript]
- Cheap groceries in hell
- Girl and mother and man who stole food
- Little country boy and blessing
- Why the ole man liked the camel best
- Ole man and snake: “Oh, it is so hot”
- Blind man, naked man, armless man on rock
- Red bug had lost his eye and wrecked train
- Lazy boy, smart boy, and bear
- He saw sadness and joy
- I’ve seen the wind blow so hard
- Why we have kings and queens
- Man and devil’s daughter
- Hairy man, little boy and little girl
- Runaway slave and snake
- Poor varmints don’t rest on Monday
- Devil, lil girl, lil boy, and her mother
- Alligator and rabbit’s squabble
- Mosquito and monkey wrench
- Lazy husband and woman and cake
- Bear, woman and her baby
- Woman and daughter and Devil
- I seen it rain so hard
- “My belly ake,” etc.
- Two preacher brothers
- I seed de coachwhip behind de race runner, etc.
- 2 blocks of ice gatherin’ li’dard knots—
- “I don’t lak dat red-eyed ’gator”
- Why the Donkey has long ears
- “Lordy, make my bottom wider”
- Baptist and Methodist deacons in sinking boat
- Methodist and Baptist preacher
- Good Time Willie
- Long, long boy
- 3 dogs, Thunder, Lightning, and Jack
- Wolf at rabbit’s funeral.
- Difference in de climate—cucumber 4 ft. long
- Fine Foot, Big Head, Big Gut, and apple tree
- Sweet Papa Black
- Wedding night
- I’m the biggest liar you ever met
- Buzzard and Hawk
- “Job ain’t never had a pair of britches”—
- Preacher and woman making date
- Brer Rabbit and Brer Frog
- Johnny and the 7-headed lady
- Brer Rabbit and de pea patch
- Cleanest white woman in U.S.A.
- Massa and Jack and fortune telling (variant)
- Isaac and Daphne and grocery order for Lord
- Dat dog dat eat out dat pan up in Canada
- Negro, devil, bet of $1,000
- De longest bullet and de deer
- 3 sons: naked, blind, armless
- Muskeeter and railroad track
- Massa Martin and Ike and watermelon patch
- Stingy man in heaven
- White man and nigger shooting crap in heaven
- Christopher spreading his mess
- [not legible in the original manuscript]
- Nigger and son and 200 lashes
- ’Tater house
- Bale of hay and a jack
- “You mustn’t say hide you must say skin”
- Ole John and Massa’s hogs
- John in the Smoke-House
- Jack and Massa’s wife
- Jack and de devil
- John and de Horse
- Ole Massa and John and groceries in sycamore tree
- Bear in de cane-patch
- Sheep in de cradle
- Man with three coughs
- 2 Boys, a Sweet Potato and God
- Sam
- Ole Massa’s Gun
- Sambo
- “Didn’t dat nigger fly”
- The Running Death
- Too many folks is preachin’ dese days
- Why women folks always poke in de fire
- The Blacksmith
- The Carpenter
- My father made a boiler so big
- I seen uh man so stingy
- “He ain’t worth uh damn in uh bear fight”
- Spell: (clucking tongue & teeth sound used to urge mules)
- Brother wuz de head fireman
- Nigger and Pres. Harding at Heaven
- “God, don’t stand no jokin’ dese days”
- Dis punkin wuz raised offa mosquito dust
- Buzzard in Charleston
- Tell Aunt Jane to tell Uncle Tom to tell de cow
- I seed uh man running so fast
- I seen a man so stingy
- I seen a man so stingy
- I know a man who wouldn’t walk—
- I know a man so stingy
- I know a man so big
- Man and 7 sons and daughter and eagle
- Mosquito and engineer
- De poorest horse
- Hosses: Three Color and Changeable
- I seen a man so low
- De train ran so fass
- I’m uh walkin on de water, oh be baptized
- Cruel Wife
- I seen it so cold
- Have you ever called a train
- De workinest pill
- The poorest ground I ever did see
- De darkest night
- Run so hard we lost our feets in de mud wash
- Jordan Car
- Whammer G. Martin’s dogs, sparro, bon bon Pree
- I seen ground so rich
- Once it wuz so cold
- “Chris’mus gift”
- Father, John, Frank, and $5,000
- Who had de right to meet de girl?
- “A gander can pick it just close as a goose”
- What is the hardest wind you ever seen
- Best trained mule
- Man so dangerous
- Lady, husband, and hoodoo
- “Clunk…think I’m goin’ pay you”
- Massa and John and ketchin’ de devil
- “Dat’s too d. much pepper”
- De crane, eel
- Lil cussin’ boy and de coffin
- Let the Holy Ghost ride—walk