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[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 87: I got a gal, you got a gal, / All us niggers got a gal. / He fool ’roun’, I fool ’roun’ / All us niggers fool ’roun’.
at fool around, v.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 69: His head was big an’ nappy, / An’ ashy wus his skin.
at ashy, adj.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 75: Good God a’-mighty! / What’s a fellow gonna do, / When ol’ black mariah / Come a-sailin’ after you?
at Black Maria, n.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 70: O Lawd, / Shot my pistol / In the heart of town. / Lawd, the big chief hollered, / ‘Doncha blow me down’.
at blow down, v.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 69: Went up to ’Lanta, / Who should I meet? / Forty-leben blue coats / Comin’ down de street.
at bluecoat, n.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 65: I’m de hot stuff man / Frum de devil’s lan’. / Go on, nigger, / Don’t you try to buck me.
at buck, v.2
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 124: When you see me comin’ / Wid my new shine on, / ’Cause I got my col’-iron burner / Under my ol’ left arm.
at burner, n.1
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 99: Ol’ Aunty Dinah had candy wagon.
at candy wagon (n.) under candy, n.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 173: Way down yonder on chit’lin’switch ... Bull frog jump from ditch to ditch.
at Chitlin Switch (n.) under chitlins, n.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 63: When de dark comes, Lawd, / Dis nigger got to creep. / Creepin’ ’roun’, / Creepin’ in, / Creepin’ everywhere / A creeper’s been [...] When de dark comes, Lawd, / A chocolate gal I’ve found.’.
at creep, v.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 66: I can cuss, I can cut, / I can shoot a nigger up.
at cut, v.6
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 69: I’m de rough stuff of dark-town alley, / I’m de man dey hates to see.
at darktown (n.) under dark, n.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 175: Wring Jing had a little ding.
at ding, n.4
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 86: Shin up a tree, no time to be los’, / ’Cause here’s de dawgs, and golly, de boss!
at golly!, excl.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 132: Bull frog sittin’ on mantel-piece, / Great scots, you don’t know what to do.
at great Scott! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 97: Lord, I’m gonna buy me rubber-tire hack.
at hack, n.1
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 67: Dere’s a creeper hangin’ roun’, / I’m gwiner git ’im, I be boun’. [...] An’ I be listenin’ fer dat houn’, / Dat leadin’ houn’.
at hound, n.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 32: [song title] I Want a Jazzy Kiss.
at jazzy, adj.2
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 112: Why I like Roberta so, / She rolls her jelly / Like she roll her dough.
at jelly, n.1
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 62: Layin’ low, never know / When de cops about.
at lay low, v.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 181: Bait in de can, hook on de stick, Fishin’ spell done got me, I can't hit a lick.
at can’t hit a lick under lick, n.1
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 163: Dere’s a Lizzie after my man.
at lizzie, n.1
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 103: Lawd, I hate to see you go, / Make me feel so low down.
at lowdown, adj.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 146: For some folksies say / A yaller is low down, / But teasin’ brown / Is what I’s crazy about.
at lowdown, adj.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 117: Missus in de big house, / Mammy in de yard. / Missus holdin’ her white hands, / Mammy workin’ hard.
at mammy, n.1
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 214: Anna yo’ peaches, but I’s yo man.
at peaches, adj.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 104: She come a-trottin’ / By one this mornin’ / With ’er head rag on.
at rag, n.1
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 132: Lawd, lissen, I believe I go to town / An’ ketch the Red Ball.
at redball (n.) under red, adj.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 32: [song title] If You Sheik on Your Mama.
at sheik, v.
[US] Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 150: Han’ on my gun, / Finger on de trigger, / I’s goin’ to jail / ’Cause I’s done spot my nigger.
at spot, v.1
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