Mythology & Folklore
Parody on "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep"
From Negro Folk Rhymes (1922)
Mythology & Folklore
Uh-huh: "Now I lays me down to sleep!"--
While dead oudles o' bedbugs 'round me creep,--
Well: If dey bites me befō' "I" wake,
I hopes "deir" ole jawbones'll break.
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MLA
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Parody on "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep".” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/169/.
Chicago
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Parody on "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep".” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/169/.
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