HAPPY ARE WE, NIGGARS SO GAY. AIR.-Maid of Cashmere. HAPPY are we piggars so gay, Come let us sing, laugh while we play, Ah! den how sweet, We all hope to meet, Madam Celeste she has de mind, To see such grace, Happy are we, &c, La, la, la. But we serenaders with blackened face, Have not altogether the mind or the grace, Of these great dancers so greatly extolled, But have de harmony wid music threefold. Music delicious, &c. Ha, ha, ha JENNY LIND. AIR.-Lucy Nea FROM Sweden's northern city 66 It was the voice of a Nightingale," Oh! charming Jenny Lind, Now down into the Haymarket, Now Jenny's at the Opera, The Garden will be thinned, For the Queen and Albert's sure to go To hear sweet Jenny Lind. Oh! charming Jenny Lind, Ok don't you know the Poet Man, Oh! don't you know the Hot Cross Bun, He tried to catch this Nightingale Charming Jenny Lind, &c. Oh! won't I pack up de old banjo, I'm darned if I ain't skinned, So come long Jenny Lind, Oh! if she wants a husband smart, I'll gib her my Ethiopian heart, Dere's many a prince and gen’alman Dat's whiter dan me skinned, Won't bear so true a heart as mine Charming Jenny Lind, &c. When I was down in Kentucky But she to Madam Jenny Lind Oh! lub, you've been de nigger's ruin, And you have been my own undoin' Oh! farewell Jenny Lind, I'll hang myself for your dear sake, DE NIGHT'S WHEN WE WENT COON HUNTING. AIR.-In the days when we went Gipsying. In de nights when we went coon hunting, Down in massa's field, We do our best de coon to catch, Because we know he'll steal; Dat eber yet was seen. CHORUS And dus we passed de pleasant time, Nor thought ob care or woe, An' we am de Serenaders, From away down below. .www De grass smell sweet de coon look neat, As in de grass he lay, He crouch himself up head an' feet, But when you hear de ole dogs bark, We fill our pipe full ebery nite, Us 'fore we start by de moonlight If we only had him long wid us, An' dus we pass, &c. BRESS THAT LUBLY YALLER GAL. Oн, bress dat lubly yaller gal, Dat de white folks call Miss Dinah, Oh, pity me ye niggas all, And tell me where I can find her. |