THE BROWN-SKINNED WOMAN.

A brown-skinned woman and she's chocolate to the bone.

A brown-skinned woman and she smells like toilet soap.

A black-skinned woman and she smells like a billy goat.

A brown-skinned woman makes a freight train slip and slide.

A brown-skinned woman makes an engine stop and blow.

A brown-skinned woman makes a bulldog break his chain.

A brown-skinned woman makes a preacher lay his Bible down.

I married a woman; she was even tailor made.

You will find plenty of economics in the following song. The present-day

negro early made that most fatal of all discoveries: namely, that a man

can really live in this world without working. Hence his _beau ideal_ is

the gambler, and his _bete noir_ is the county jail or the penitentiary.

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