"Dinah Crow" (1848)
A Celebrated 
Ethiopian Song 
as sung by the 
Campbell Minstrels
Composed and Arranged 
for the 
Piano Forte, 
by J. H. Burdett.
 
New York: William Hall & Son, 239 Broadway 
Plate Nio. 271
[Source: at the Detroit Public Library,
Digital ID: dpl-hac-11021.dc 
OCLC Record ID: 13466865] 

1. O hark and I will tell you afore it gets too late 
The circumstance dat griebs me so ob my poor Dinahs fate 
I lub’d Miss Dinah Crow. She pleg’d her lub to me; 
a couple dat lub’d more dan us, none ob you ’ere did see.

CHORUS [sung after each voice]
Oh Dinah! Oh! Dinah! Oh! lubly Dinah Crow, 
The many rears I’ve shed for you no udder darkies know.

2. One night I asked my Dinah if she wid me would go
A sailing cross the ribber to see my father Joe,
When on de way so pleasant, so happy and so gay
My Dinah she fell overboard and on de botom lay.

3. I jumped into de ribber, my Dinah to obtain.
She say “farewell, I’m dying.” She neber spake again.
Wid heaby heart I dig a grabe and softly laid her down,
I strew it o’er wid flowers sweet and dar I sat and mourn.

4. From dat day to the present, my heart  it sobs and beats,
And when dat day comes once a year, I nebber nebber eats;
But wid eye all full ob sorrow, unto her grabe I go,
And softly dar I whisper, “come to me Dinah Crow.”