484. I Don't Like a Nigger

484
I Don't Like a Nigger

Sandburg (ASb 326) reports something like this directed not at
Negroes but at railroad men. Otherwise I have not found it. The
last four lines, quite incongruously, sound like a fragment of a
spiritual.

'I Don't Like a Nigger.' Contributed by Julian P. Boyd, from James
Tingle, one of his pupils in the school at Alliance, Pamlico county.

I don't like a nigger,

ril be dinged if I do.

Feet's so big

Till he can't wear a shoe.

Head like a hay-stack.

Mouth like a frog's ;

Eats more l)read than

Forty bull-dogs.

Got de glory and honor !

Praise de Jesus, to my dyin' land !^

Got de glory and honor.

To my dyin' land.^

' So the manuscript. Perhaps misheard, or simply miswritten, for
"Lawd."