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Lone song of the Shawawi
Don’t yo’ love a co’n song? /
How it stirs yo’ blood! /
Ever’body list’nin’, /
In de neighborhood! /
Standin’ in yo’ front do’ /
In de misty mo’n, /
Hyah de jolly black boy, /
Singin’ in de co’n
John Wesley Holloway, The Corn Song
March 2007
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