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Paul Laurence Dunbar - When Sam`l Sings
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Hyeah dat singin` in de medders
    Whaih de folks is mekin` hay?
  Wo`k is pretty middlin` heavy
    Fu` a man to be so gay.
  You kin tell dey `s somep`n special
    F`om de canter o` de song;
  Somep`n sholy pleasin` Sam`l,
    W`en he singin` all day long.

  Hyeahd him wa`blin` `way dis mo`nin`
    `Fo` `t was light enough to see.
  Seem lak music in de evenin`
    Allus good enough fu` me.
  But dat man commenced to hollah
    `Fo` he `d even washed his face;
  Would you b`lieve, de scan`lous rascal
    Woke de birds erroun` de place?

  Sam`l took a trip a-Sad`day;
    Dressed hisse`f in all he had,
  Tuk a cane an` went a-strollin`,
    Lookin` mighty pleased an` glad.
  Some folks don` know whut de mattah,
    But I do, you bet yo` life;
  Sam`l smilin` an` a-singin`
    `Case he been to see his wife.

  She live on de fu` plantation,
    Twenty miles erway er so;
  But huh man is mighty happy
    Wen he git de chanst to go.
  Walkin` allus ain` de nices`--
    Mo`nin` fin`s him on de way--
  But he allus comes back smilin`,
    Lak his pleasure was his pay.

  Den he do a heap o` talkin`,
    Do` he mos`ly kin` o` still,
  But de wo`ds, dey gits to runnin`
    Lak de watah fu` a mill.
  "Whut `s de use o` havin` trouble,
    Whut `s de use o` havin` strife?"
  Dat `s de way dis Sam`l preaches
    W`en he been to see his wife.

  An` I reckon I git jealous,
    Fu` I laff an` joke an` sco`n,
  An` I say, "Oh, go on, Sam`l,
    Des go on, an` blow yo` ho`n."
  But I know dis comin` Sad`day,
    Dey `ll be brighter days in life;
  An` I `ll be ez glad ez Sam`l
    W`en I go to see my wife.
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