Living
How to Plant and Cultivate Seeds
From Negro Folk Rhymes (1922)
Living
Plant: One fer de blackbird
Two fer de crow,
Three fer de jaybird
An' fō' fer to grow.
Den: When you goes to wuk,
Don't never stand still;
When you pull de grass,
Pull it out'n de hill.
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MLA
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “How to Plant and Cultivate Seeds.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/321/.
Chicago
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “How to Plant and Cultivate Seeds.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/321/.
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