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PHILIPPINE ISLAND RHYME

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ONE TUNE USED WITH "BAA! BAA! BLACK SHEEP!"

ONE NEGRO TUNE USED WITH "AN OPOSSUM HUNT"

ONE NEGRO THEME SUNG WITH "FROG WENT A-COURTING"

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MARRIED LIFE RHYME SECTION

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You Love Your Girl

Wild Negro Bill

Why Look At Me?

We'll Stick To The Hoe

Watermelon Preferred

Uncle Jerry Fants

Two Times One

To Win A Yellow Girl

This Sun Is Hot

They Steal Gossip

The Thrifty Slave

The Rascal

The Nashville Ladies[31]

The Mule's Nature

The Mule's Kick

The Elephant

The College Ox

Sweet Pinks And Roses

Sex Laugh

Satan

Parody On Reign Master Jesus Reign!

Parody On Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

Page's Geese[30]

Outrunning The Devil

Our Old Mule

No Room To Poke Fun

Negro Soldier's Civil War Chant

Miss Slippy Sloppy

Master Killed A Big Bull

Looking For A Fight

Kept Busy

Johnny Bigfoot

John Henry

I'm A Round-town Gentleman

I'll Wear Me A Cotton Dress

I'll Get You Rabbit!

I'll Eat When I'm Hungry

How To Please A Preacher

How To Make It Rain

How To Keep Or Kill The Devil

How To Get To Glory Land

Hear-say

He Paid Me Seven Parody

Half Way Doings

Going To Be Good Slaves

Frightened Away From A Chicken-roost

Fox And Rabbit Drinking Propositions

Fattening Frogs For Snakes

Does Money Talk?

Destitute Former Slave Owners

Crossing A Foot-log

Crooked Nose Jane

Coffee Grows On White Folks' Trees

Christmas Turkey

Care In Bread-making

Bedbug

Bad Features

Aunt Jemima

A Wind-bag

A Turkey Funeral

A Short Letter

A Request To Sell

A Full Pocketbook

A Fine Plaster

A Few Negroes By States

A Day's Happiness