Mythology & Folklore
Run, Nigger, Run!
From Negro Folk Rhymes (1922)
Mythology & Folklore
Run, Nigger, run! De Patter-rollers'll ketch you.
Run, Nigger, run! It's almos' day.
Dat Nigger run'd, dat Nigger flew,
Dat Nigger tore his shu't in two.
All over dem woods and frou de paster,
Dem Patter-rollers shot; but de Nigger git faster,
Oh, dat Nigger whirl'd, dat Nigger wheel'd,
Dat Nigger tore up de whole co'n field.
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MLA
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Run, Nigger, Run!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/46/.
Chicago
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Run, Nigger, Run!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/46/.
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