from
Melodies of the Sable Brothers
as Arranged and Sung by them
in New York and other Cities of the Union,
with great Success.
[No. 1 of 3]
"Suke of Tennessee" (1848)
Arranged and Sung by A. Forrest

New York: C. HOLT Jr., 156 Fulton St.
[Source: 020/170@Levy]

1.
I’m tired of life; I cannot find
  My suke of Tennessee,
For I used to meet her in the old corn field,
  She’s mine whereever she be.

CHORUS [sung after each VERSE]
Have any of you seen her?
She’s mine whereever she be,
O tell where I can find her,
My  suke of Tennessee?

2.
She’s listen’d to the preaching of old Father Miller,
  She’s up in the clouds I b’lieve,
Says she, go a way, all you wicked color’d nigger,
  For this world, I’m going for to leave.

3.
She told Ole Massa, fore she left,
  That she was young for to leave him,
She look’d like her Fader, cause he was black
  And so was her brother Stephen.

4.
She put all her ’sention robes on her back;
  She climb up de big pine tree,
But weder she went up, or weder she went down
  I did not stop for to see.