Bandanna Ballads

INDEX TO FIRST LUES A child all wearied with, its day Among the ranks of shining saints Dars always somethin 26 34 1 wantin Dars two times in de year dat Gord Far down the west still glows the light I cant allow my picture took I changed my name when I got free I havent cooked a Possum -- Lord long to see a cotton field In the dusk of Ghloes rich brown cheek 18 14 In vain my palette bears a score 62 I plays de banjo better now Idy chile Lord no, shes none o mine 80 Of course Ill gladly give de rule 70 On Llasters ol plantation, where 86 Swing low, sweet Chariot, low enough The world is a mighty confusin 7 big place 22 We only had one chile an hit 6 Were always young till mammy dies 30 When autumn skies are deeper blue 54 Who, me in love, an wid Lizette 46 Yes, faster, dats jes what I think You ax about dat music made 50 HOWARD WEKDEH, horn in Huntsville, Alabama, of Virginia and Georgia parentage. Her fatiler and grandfather were pros perous cotton planters and from her mothers family of Scottish ancestry, Miss Weeden inherited a taste for letters. Bandanna Ballads was published in 1899. BANDANNA BALLADS AND FANCY HEARS THE ADVENT ROLL THROUGH THAT OLD NEGROS SOUL Page 74- Bandanna Ballads INCLUDING Shadows on the Wall Verses and Pictures by Howard Weeden INTRODUCTION BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS Oh, south winds have long memories. INTRODUCTION I AM fortunate indeed in having the op portunity to attach my name, even in a casual way, to the delightful materials out of which this volume is fashioned, for these materials not only possess a vital and an inherent charm of their own, but shed an illumination over all the various efforts, good, bad, and indifferent, that have been made to throw thefigures of the old-time plantation negroes on the literary canvas. What has been attempted by many hands wielding the pen is here carried to comple tion by a womans hand wielding the brush. This volume may therefore be said to be the connecting link between the art that is prolix and the art that is precise, between the art that suggests and the art that fulfils. The two arts have met and joined hands