Mythology & Folklore

Flap-Jacks

by Thomas W. Talley (collector) 1870–1952

From Negro Folk Rhymes (1922)

Mythology & Folklore

I loves my wife, an' I loves my baby:
An' I loves dem flap-jacks a-floatin' in gravy.
You play dem chyards, an' make two passes:
While I eats dem flap-jacks a-floatin' in 'lasses.

Now: in come a Nigger an' in come a bear,
In come a Nigger dat hain't got no hair.
Good-by, Nigger, go right on back,
Fer I hain't gwineter give you no flap-jack.

MLA

Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Flap-Jacks.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/302/.

Chicago

Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Flap-Jacks.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/302/.

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