Mythology & Folklore
Don't Sing Before Breakfast
From Negro Folk Rhymes (1922)
Mythology & Folklore
Don't sing out 'fore Breakfast,
Don't sing 'fore you eat,
Or you'll cry out 'fore midnight,
You'll cry 'fore you sleep.
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MLA
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Don't Sing Before Breakfast.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/293/.
Chicago
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Don't Sing Before Breakfast.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/293/.
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