There are lots of boys in the Northern sections And some of them have quite good connections⁠— She looks charming this evening, doesn’t she? If she danced just a little less dashingly !

Cudjo watched her as she went by, “She’s got a light foot,” thought Cudjo, “Hi! A light, swif’ foot and a talkin’ eye! But you’ll need more’n dat, Miss Sally Dupré Before you proposals with young Marse Clay. And as soon as de fiddles finish slewin’ Dey’s sixteen things I ought to be doin’. The Major’s sure to be wantin’ his dram, We’ll have to be cuttin’ a second ham, And dat trashy high-yaller, Parker’s Guinea, Was sayin’ some Yankee name Old John Brown Has raised de Debil back in Virginny And freed de niggers all over town, He’s friends with de ha’nts and steel won’t touch him But the paterollers is sure to cotch him. How come he want to kick up such a dizziness! Nigger-business ain’t white-folks’ business.”