Mythology & Folklore
Crossing a Foot-Log
From Negro Folk Rhymes (1922)
Mythology & Folklore
Me an' my wife an' my bobtail dog
Start 'cross de creek on a hick'ry log.
We all fall in an' git good wet,
But I helt to my liddle brown jug, you bet!
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MLA
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Crossing a Foot-Log.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/155/.
Chicago
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Crossing a Foot-Log.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/155/.
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