Carmina Princetonia/Levee Song

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The oldest published version of "I've been working on the most railroad", in Carmina Princetonia, a book of Princeton University songs

2276322Carmina Princetonia — Levee Song1894

LEVEE SONG.

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Solo.
1. I once did know
A girl named Grace—
Quartet.
I'm wukkin' on de levee;
Solo.
She done brung me to
Dis sad disgrace
Quartet.
O' wukkin' on de levee.

Chorus.
I been wukkin' on de railroad
All de livelong day;
I been wukkin' on de railroad
Ter pass de time away.
Doan' yuh hyah de whistle blowin'?
Rise up, so uhly in de mawn;

Doan' yuh hyah de cap'n shoutin',
"Dinah, blow yo' hawn?"

Solo.
2.Sing a song o' the city;
Roll dat cotton bale;
Niggah ain' half so happy
As when he's out o' jail.
Norfolk foh it's oystahshells,
Boston foh it's beans,
Cha'leston foh it's rice an' cawn,
But foh niggahs—New Awleens.

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