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WHOA, MARK JUBA
Category: Secular Slave Song
Source: The Black Perspective In Music (Vol 4, July 1976,
Special Issue, Number 2, pp.148-149), Negro Folk
Songs"
reprinted from The Southern Workman
24 Feb.
1895
,pages 30-32 (program presented by
Hampton
Folklorist Society, Washington, D.C. )
Marster had a yaller man
Talles’ Black man in de land,
Juba was dat feller’s name.
De way he strutted was a shame.
Juba, Juba, Juba, Juba -(repeat several times)
Oh, twas Juba dis and Juba dat
Juba killed the yaller cat
To make his wife a Sunday hat-Juba.
His wife was yaller, tall an’ fat;
He killed ole missis yaller cat
To make his wife a Sunday hat.
Juba, Juba, Juba, Juba
Marster had a yaller steer
Ol’s de mountain to er year,
I tells yer dis for all ‘er dat
He’d run away at de drop’ o yer hat.
Whoa Mark.
See ’im comin up de road
Pullin on er monstrous load,
Git out’n de way mighty spry
Or he’ll tho’ you to de sky.
Whoa Mark.
Juba driv dat ole steer
Fer five an’ twenty year,
Thu de rain and thu de snow
Juba an de steer’d go
Whoa Mark-Juba.
When de sun was shinin bright,
Ef twas day, ef twas night,
Her him holler loud an’ strong
Mark, why don’t yer git er long.
Golong-Whoa Mark-Juba.
By’em by dat ole ox died,
Juba he jes cried and cried
Tell one day he ups an’ die
I spec he’s drivin in de sky,
Golong-whoa Mark-Juba.
Comments:
The words are presented in their original form with the exception of
my substitution of "Black man" for "nigger" . See my essay on Juba
in CocoJams Essays.
Preserve African American culture!. Send the chants that you know
to CocoJams!
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