CHORUS.

Then lay down the agricultural implements,

Allow the violin and the bow to be pendent on the wall.--

For there is no more physical energy to be displayed by indigent

aged Edward,

For he has departed to the abode designated by a kind Providence

for all pious, humane, and benevolent individuals.

Uncle Edward had digits equal in longitude to the

Bamboo formation which springs so spontaneously on the bank of the

Southern Mississippi,

And he had no oculars with which to observe

The beauties of nature,

And he had no dental formations with which to

Masticate the Indian meal cake,

Consequently he was forced to permit the

Indian meal cake to pass by with impunity.

_Chorus._--Then lay down, &c.

When Uncle Ned relinquished his hold on vitality,

His master was exceedingly grieved,

And the lachrymal poured down his cheeks similar to the rain from

heaven,

For he knew that the old man was laid beneath terra firma, terra

firma,

He would never have the pleasure of beholding the physiognomy of

the aged Edward any more.

_Chorus._--Then lay down, &c.

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Uncle Gabriel.

Copied by permission of FIRTH, POND & CO., 547 Broadway, N. Y.,

publishers of the music.

I was gwan to Sandy Point de oder arternoon,

Dis nigger’s heel cum’b out ob joint a running arter a coon;

I thought I see’d him on a log, a lookin’ mighty quar

Wen I cum’d up to de log, de coon he wasn’t dar.