SLAVE SONGS OF THE UNITED STATES. II. 83. WAKE UP, JACOB. 1. Wake up, Jacob, day is a breaking, I'm on my way; 0, 1st. wake up, Jacob, day is a breaking, I'm on my way. O! 2d. way. I want to go to heaven when I die, Do love de Lord! I | 1st. D.C. 2d. | want to go to heaven when I die, Do love de Lord! O! Lord. 2 Got some friends on de oder shore, Do love de Lord! I want to see 'em more an' more, Do love de Lord! Wake up, Jacob, &c. [We should be tempted, from the character of this tune, to doubt its genuineness as a pure negro song. We are informed, however, that it was sung twenty-five years ago in negro camp-meetings, and not in those of the whites. The words, at any rate, are worth preserving, as illustrating the kind of influ ence brought to bear upon the wavering.] [This, which is now, in a somewhat different form, a Methodist hymn, was sung as given above, by the colored people of Ann Arundel Co., Md., twentyfive years ago.-W. A. H.] 86. SHOCK ALONG, JOHN. Shock along, John, shock along. Shock along, John, shock along. [A corn-song, of which only the burden is remembered.] 87. ROUND THE CORN, SALLY. 1. Five can't ketch me and ten can't hold me, Ho,...... round the corn, Sally! Round the corn, round the corn, round the corn, Sal - ly! Ho, ho, ho, round the corn, Sal-ly! 2 Here's your iggle-quarter and here's your count-aquils. 3 I can bank, 'ginny bank, 'ginny bank the weaver. ["Iggle" is of course "eagle;" for the rest of the enigmatical words and expressions in this corn-song, we must leave readers to guess at the interpretation.] |