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A Negro Love Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar

9/6/2008 1:18:46 PM
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Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872-1904)
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A Negro Love Song
 
  Seen my lady home las' night,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hel' huh han' an' sque'z it tight,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hyeahd huh sigh a little sigh,
Seen a light gleam f'om huh eye,
An' a smile go flittin' by --
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hyeahd de win' blow thoo de pine,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Mockin'-bird was singin' fine,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
An' my hea't was beatin' so,
When I reached my lady's do',
Dat I could n't ba' to go --
Jump back, honey, jump back.

Put my ahm aroun' huh wais',
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Raised huh lips an' took a tase,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Love me, honey, love me true?
Love me well ez I love you?
An' she answe'd, "'Cose I do"--
Jump back, honey, jump back.

Paul Laurence Dunbar


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Lewis Colyar (5/10/2007 1:35:00 AM)
Paul Laurence Dunbar was yet another of the poets that Langston Hughes read and studied. The hool in this poem was well repeated by us Afican-American boys.
Men long before my day 'came a calling' on a woman. the speaker in this poems
is taking his lady home for the evening. looking forward in continuing the night.
Jump back, honey jump back.

Langston Hughes Poetry society of Pittsburgh
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