The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book/Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose
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123—MAMMY'S LITTLE COAL BLACK ROSE
You'd better dry your eyes my little Coal Black Rose,You'd better go to sleep and let those eye-lids close.'Cause you're dark, don't start a-pinin'.You're a cloud with a silver linin'.Though every old crow thinks h'es babe am white as snowYour dear old mammy knows you're mighty like a rose.And when the angels gave those kinky curls to youThey put a sunbeam in your disposition too, that's true,And they just made you dark I s'poseCos' your heart's so white I guess dearThey's none left for the rest dear,So don't you cry, don't you sigh'Cause you're Mammy's little Coal Black Rose.