Annotation:Nigger Sick

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N..... SICK. AKA and see "Niggery Sick," "Neeky Seeky." American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Collector Samuel Bayard heard these rhymes with the tune in southwestern Pennsylvania:

N..... sick and nigger dead,
N..... had a wooly head;
N..... sick and nigger dead,
Devil take his curly head. .... (Bayard-H. White)


N..... sick and nigger die;
N..... eat a chicken pie. .... (Strosnider)

Fisk University African-American collector Thomas Talley printed the closely related (and just as racist) rhyme in his Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise (1922, p. 13):

N.....! N..... never die!
He gits choked on Chicken pie.
Black face, white shiny eye. N.....! N.....!

N.....! N..... never knows!
Mashed nose, an' crooked toes;
Dat's de way de Nigger goes. N.....! N.....!

N.....! N..... always sing;
Jump up, cut de Pidgeon's wing;
Whirl, an' give his feet a fling. N.....! N.....!

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