Annotation:Nigger Sick
X:1 T:N..... Sick M:4/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:Bayard - Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife (1981, No. 296) K:G dBcA dB c2|dBcA GE D2z2|dBcA dB c2|ABAG EG D2z2|| EGAG EGAz|EGAG EC Dz|EGAG EGA>B|cBcA GE Dx||
N.....[1] SICK. AKA and see "Niggery Sick," "Neeky Seeky." American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Collector Samuel Bayard heard these rhymes with the tune in southwestern Pennsylvania:
N..... sick and nigger dead,
N..... had a wooly head;
N..... sick and nigger dead,
Devil take his curly head. .... (Bayard-H. White)
N..... sick and nigger die;
N..... eat a chicken pie. .... (Strosnider)
Fisk University African-American collector Thomas Talley printed the closely related (and just as racist) rhyme in his Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise (1922, p. 13):
N.....! N..... never die!
He gits choked on Chicken pie.
Black face, white shiny eye. N.....! N.....!
N.....! N..... never knows!
Mashed nose, an' crooked toes;
Dat's de way de Nigger goes. N.....! N.....!
N.....! N..... always sing;
Jump up, cut de Pidgeon's wing;
Whirl, an' give his feet a fling. N.....! N.....!
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