Howard Weeden

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  • The Borrowed Child

    My chile? Lord, no, she ’s none o’ mine;
      She ’s des one I have tried
    To put in place of Anna Jane—
      My little one what died.

    Dat ’s long ago; no one but me
      Knows even where she lies:
    But in her place I ’ve always kept
      A borrowed...

  • The Banjo of the Past

    You ax about dat music made
      On banjos long ago,
    An’ wants to know why it ain’t played
      By niggers any mo’.

    Dem banjos b’longed to by-gone days
      When times an’ chunes was rare,
    When we was gay as children—’case
      We did n’t have a care...