"And Dat's Another Pull Back" (1854)
A Sure Enough C O R N   S O N G Taken From The
DARKIES THEMSELVES.
By
Frank Williams.

Cincinnati, Ohio: W. C. Peters
Plate No. 2147 __ 3.
[Source: 771530@LoC]

Description__ At a regular home-spun Virginia or Kentucky
Corn shucking, a Negro having the finest voice and the best
descriptive powers, and who is termed the Rhymer, is selected.
Mounting a stump or some other elevation he sings a couplet.
At the end of the couplet another singer especially appointed,
answers, "And dat's another puill back" The words "Holler boys
hoy" are then sung in Chorus. After a repetition of "And dat's
another pull back" and the Chorus "Holler boys hoy," the
principal singer, who is generally an _Improvisateur_ also,
sings "Hurrah for the Rhymer" The Chorus "Ho - o" follows, and
"Hurrah for the Rhymer" is again repeated. The verse ends with
the Chorus "Ha - ah," which the Negros sing in Unisons with a
nasal twang peculiar to themselves, and which is difficult to
imitate.

1.
[1st voice]
I dreamp a dream the odder night
  I dreamp I was a runnin,
But when I wak'd I found, 
  The dream had only bin afunnin.

[Sung after each VERSE]
[2nd voice]
Oh! dat's another pull back.
[Chorus unison]
Holler boys, hey.
[2nd voice]
And dat's another pull back.
[Chorus]
Holler boys, hey
[1st Voice]
Hurra! for the Rhymer.
[Shorus]
Ho oh
[1st voice]
Hurrah! for the Rhymer
[Cho. (in a nasal tone)]
Ha ah ah.

2.
Dis Nigga sick, old Massa think
  He does'nt like to toil,
He send for Doctor Fetchemtoo
  And gin him Castor Oil.

3.
The money market's monstrous hard
  They say it don't do right Sir
But Father Matthew's coming over
  To keep it from getting tight Sir

4.
Ole Kurnel Sperry* from North Caroline
  Ranks among the Scholars:
He's the richest man in Buncombe town,
  And worth three thousand dollars.

[* The usual way of getting rid of a bore in Kentucky, is to
ask the question "Do you know Col: Sperry"?]

5.
Ole missus had a washing maid
  To wash up all the dishes,
And eb'ry time she comb'd her hair
  She ketch'd some little fishes.

6.
Ole Massa he's a mighty mean man,
  And eb'ry body knows it;
He keeps good "red-eye" in the house,
  But neber say__ here goes it.

7.
Once I know'd a yaller gal,
  Her name was Sally Russell,
She got a fall__ she tore her coat,
  And like to lost her bo-bo-bo-bonnet.