Nonsense Rhyme.
from the Negro quarters
Jay-bird a-sittin' on a Hickory limb.
He winked at me, I winked at him.
'Taint gwine to rain no mo'.
Hawk and Buzzard went to law;
Hawk fell down and broke his jaw.
'Taint gwine to rain no mo'.
Oh, de Wren and de Thrush go clackety-clack,
Dey bofe talk at once an dey bofe talk back,
Dey say: "Jim Crow, my but you =is= black!"
'Taint gwine to rain no mo'.