Mythology & Folklore
Cooking Dinner
From Negro Folk Rhymes (1922)
Mythology & Folklore
Go: Bile dem cabbage down.
Turn dat hoecake 'round,
Cook it done an' brown.
Yes: Gwineter have sweet taters too.
Hain't had none since las' Fall,
Gwineter eat 'em skins an' all.
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MLA
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Cooking Dinner.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/231/.
Chicago
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Cooking Dinner.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/231/.
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