{"1": {"fulltext": "NDANNA BALLADS\\nHOWARD WEEDEN", "height": "3733", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY GF CONGRESS.\\ni Ci.aii. Copyright No....._..\\n1% 3\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3606", "width": "2240", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3606", "width": "2240", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "BANDANNA BALLADS", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "V", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "AND FANCY HEARS THE ADVENT ROLL\\nTHROUGH THAT OLD NEGRO S SOUL\\nI\\n(/V 74.)", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Bandanna Ballads\\nINCLUDING\\nShadows on the Wall\\nVerses and Pictures by\\nHoward Weeden\\nINTRODUCTION BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS\\nNEW YORK\\nDOUBLEDAY McCLURE COMPANY\\n1899", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECEIVKD^\\nLibrary of Congrei8|\\nOfflQe of tb\u00c2\u00ab\\n)V2S1B99\\nRegister of Copyrightflk\\n47728\\nCoPYKMGHT, i8q9, HY\\nDOUBLEDAY McCLURE CO.\\nSECOND COPY*", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ALL\\nTHE FAITHFUL MAMMIES WHO EVER\\nSUNG SOUTHERN BABES TO REST", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION\\nI AM fortunate indeed in having- the op-\\nportunity to attach my name, even in a\\ncasual way, to the dehghtful materials out\\nof which this volume is fashioned, for these\\nmaterials not only possess a vital and an\\ninherent charm of their own, but shed an\\nillumination over all the various efforts,\\ngood, bad, and indifferent, that have been\\nmade to throw the figures of the old-time\\nplantation negroes on the literary canvas.\\nWhat has been attempted by many hands\\nwielding the pen is here carried to comple-\\ntion by a woman s hand wielding the brush.\\nThis volume may therefore be said to be\\nthe connectinor link between the art that is\\nprolix and the art that is precise, between\\nthe art that suggests and the art that fulfils.\\nThe two arts have met and joined hands", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "Introduction\\nbefore, but never, so far as I know, under\\nsuch satisfactory conditions and with such\\ncomplete success for, as has been intimated,\\nthese memorial portraits illustrate the work\\nof every conscientious writer who has en-\\ndeavored to depict the character and indi-\\nviduality of the quality negroes familiar\\nto the vSouthern plantations before the war\\nnot only illustrate it, but give it a fresh\\nclaim to consideration.\\nIt is safe to say that never before has an\\nartist cauorht with such vital and startling\\ndistinctness, such moving fidelity, the char-\\nacters which gave to the old plantation, if\\nnot its chiefest charm, at least one of its\\nmost enchanting features. Moreover, these\\nmemorial portraits arrive upon the scene in\\nthe very nick and point of time. A new\\ngeneration has arisen, and it has l)ecome\\nincredulous and sceptical in regard to the\\ntraditions and legends of the old plantation\\nin general, and of the old-time quality negro\\nin particular. These newcomers find a touch", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Introduction\\nof romance in the reports that come to them\\nfrom their forbears their curiosity receives\\na filhp they would Hke to beheve in the\\nsubstance of what they hear but they\\nHve in a commercial age, and have a hard\\ngrip on what is practical and concrete.\\nThey look about them for some confirma-\\ntion of the stories that are told, and they\\nfind not a shred. If there were negroes in\\nthe old days so quaint and gentle, so tender-\\nhearted and devoted, that novelists and\\nwriters of tales never tire of crownino- them\\nwith the halos that are convenient to fiction,\\nwhat has become of them Why have they\\ndisappeared from the face of the earth, leav-\\ning no trace behind Why have they left\\nno successors Such is the attitude of an\\nincredulous generation, engaged in trying to\\nsnatch a few tufts of hair from the seventy-\\nand-seven thousand prongs of the money-\\ndemon s tail.\\nNot long ago, a Northern gentleman, who\\nhas been in the South loner enous^h to make\\n_ o", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Introduction\\nhis mark there, wrote to an author of his\\nacquaintance protesting against the whole-\\nsale method of making saints of the old-time\\nnegroes. If you want to display genuine\\nart, he said, give it the relish of reality.\\nPaint the negroes as they now are. When\\nyou do this, I ll take a thousand copies of\\nyour book, and send them broadcast among\\nmy friends in New York and Massachusetts.\\nWell, the art of Miss Weeden s book is\\nnot only an answer to the sceptical, but is a\\nwelcome and necessary explanation of the\\nplantation legends that have been preserved.\\nWhatever the negroes are now, whatever\\nthey may become in the cold-storage con-\\nditions of our commercial environment, these\\nportraits present unimpeachable evidence of\\nwhat they were. The art with which the\\nfacts are set forth is so felicitous in its\\ntouch, so faithful and so informing, that it\\ngoes deeper than character and individu-\\nality it revives and resurrects the period\\nin some mysterious way it restores the", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Introduction\\natmosphere and color of the time. And\\neach portrait stands out a httle masterpiece,\\nharmonious, powerful, charged with feeling,\\nand illuminated by the imagination that\\nmakes its creations more real than life itself.\\nHere are to be found the courtesy, the re-\\nfinement, the dignity, the touch of conde-\\n.scension which the old-time neo^roes cauofht\\nfrom their masters and mistresses.\\nHere, too, are portrayed the contradic-\\ntions that orave relish and zest to the neofro\\ncharacter independence with loyalty, pride\\nwith gentleness, officiousness with zeal, per-\\nverseness with graciousness, captiousness\\nwith affection and the flavor of gentility\\nwhich was the result of neither apishness\\nnor servility. Alas that the successors and\\ndescendants of these old necrroes should\\nnow everywhere answer to the name of\\ncoons, and that their rich melodies should\\nbe degraded into the vulgar and disgusting\\nrao^-time sones\\nBut, sooner or later, Time will play havoc", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "Introduction\\nwith all things over which it claims do-\\nminion, and in many directions the South\\nhas had a surfeit of such chancres as havoc\\ninvolves. Therefore I am moved to thank\\nHeaven for the beautiful eenius that has\\nsnatched from the past and preserved the\\nhandful of memories embodied in this book.\\nFor me, and for all who are in love with\\nsimplicity, there is a story behind each pa-\\nthetic face here pictured, and, indeed, some-\\nthing of the kind is more than intimated in\\nthe verses that face the portraits verses that\\naccompany this symphony of art like a sweet\\nand softly-played refrain, recurring and filling\\nup the pauses. In the midst of the furious\\nstriving for effect, characteristic of our brief\\nday, the simplicity and modesty of these\\nlittle poems are very striking. They flutter\\nacross the page as shy and as delicate as the\\nyellow falling leaves of the mimosa blown\\npast a dear old lady s window years and\\nyears ago.\\nJoel Chandler Harris.", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "The Contents\\nBANDANNA BALLADS\\nMammy s Lullaby, 2\\nTheology, 6\\nOld Times, 10\\nA Child s Eyes, 14\\nHomesick, 18\\nThe Interpreter, 22\\nEventide, 26\\nWhen Mammy Dies, 30\\nSHADOWS ON THE WALL\\nMother and Mammy, 34\\nThe Old Boatman, 38\\nAunt Judy and the Painter, 42\\nTwo Lovers and Lizette, 46", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "The Contents\\nThe Banjo of the Past, 50\\nPossum Time, 54\\nToo Late, 58\\nA Studio Dispute, 62\\nA Regret, 66\\nBeaten Biscuit, 70\\nA Plantation Hymn, 74\\nA Banjo Song, yy\\nThe Borrowed Child, 80\\nThe Devil s Garden, 86\\nEasy Living, 90", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": 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found, has\\nbeen\\nTo keep a good grip on my hoe\\nYou can always depend on de fields an de\\nsky\\nWhichever way other things go\\nAn de res will get plain in time to de man\\nWho keeps a good grip on his hoe\\n22", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "f\\n1,\\nI\\nX", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "EVENTIDE", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "Eventide\\nA child all wearied with its day\\nOf laughter, tears, and play,\\nIs gathered, gainst its will, to rest\\nAt eve on Mammy s breast.\\nShe bends above him, dark and calm,\\nAnd, tender as a psalm.\\nShe lays a long kiss on his lips.\\nTill in that soft eclipse\\nHe melts away to sweet release\\nAnd sleeps in smiling peace.\\nSome day I, too, shall go to rest\\nUpon a kind Dark Breast,\\nAnd feel my soul slip through a kiss\\nAs dark and kind as this\\n26", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "WHEN MAMMY DIES", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "When Mammy Dies\\nWe re always young till mammy dies\\nBut when her hand no longer lies\\nAs once it did upon our head\\nWe feel that youth with her has Red.\\nWe watch her wing her way to Rest,\\nAnd see ourselves upon her breast,\\nOur young selves cradled as of yore-\\nNow borne from us forevermore.\\nWe hear their last faint lullaby\\nBlown softly backward from the sky.\\nAnd as they soar beyond our reach\\nWe wave farewell to 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In love, an wid Lizette?\\nYou better b lieve I ain t\\nNo sassy gal like dat could give\\nDis nigger heart-complaint.\\nIf Gord don t love her more den I,\\nDen all I got to say\\nIs, dat her soul s in danger sho\\nAn she had better pray\\nIt s her, dat is in love wid me\\nAn I jes laughs an tell her,\\nDe fruit dat draps d out bein shook\\nIs sho to be too meller\\nBut all de same, you talks too much\\nTo suit me, bout Lizette:\\nSome gent man s nigger gwine get hurt\\nAbout dat same gal yet\\n46", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE BANJO OF THE PAST", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "The Banjo of the Past\\nYou ax about dat music made\\nOn banjos long ago,\\nAn wants to know why it ain t played\\nBy niggers any mo\\nDem banjos b longed to by-gone days\\nWhen times an chunes was rare,\\nWhen we was gay as children case,\\nWe didn t have a care.\\nBut when we got our freedom, we\\nFound projeckin was done\\nOur llvin was to make you see.\\nAn dat lef out de fun.\\nWe learned to vote an read an spell.\\nWe learned de taste ob tears\\nAn when you gets dat sponsible,\\nDe banjo disappears\\n50", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "POSSUM TIME", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "Possum Time\\nWhen autumn skies are deeper blue\\nThan any skies June ever knew\\nWhen frost has touched the mellow air\\nTill yellow leaves fall everywhere\\nWhen wild grapes scent the wind with wine,\\nAnd ripe persimmons give the sign,\\nThen Life seems happy as a rhyme\\nBecause it s nearly Possum time\\nWhen fires roar on the cabin-hearth,\\nAnd ovens bubble low in mirth\\nWhen sweet potatoes slowly bake,\\nAnd Mammy makes her best ash-cake\\nWhen Daddy climbs the jice and throws\\nA string of peppers clown, it shows.\\nThat Life is happier than a rhyme.\\nBecause at last it s Possum time\\n54", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "TOO LATE", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "Too Late\\nYes, Master, dat s jes what I think\\nDat F reedom is first rate.\\nI only means to say it came\\nFor some of us, too late\\nDe days dat you call slavery days\\nSeemed happy ones, you see,\\nBecase I was so young an gay\\nAn Dinah was wid me.\\nBut jes as Freedom come along\\nMy Dinah up an died\\nAn I got ol an couldn t learn\\nDe new ways, dough I tried.\\nSo when dey talks bout being free.\\nAn I don t seem to heed em,\\nYou may jes know my heart s brimful,\\nAn tears has drownded F reedom\\n58", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "A STUDIO DISPUTE", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "A Studio Dispute\\nIn vain my palette bears a score\\nOf browns, and yellows, too\\nIn vain I ask of other eyes\\nWhat is my model s hue\\nA glow from Afric suns, I cry,\\nStill lingers in her face,\\nAnd keeps a light there, as if llame\\nShone throuofh an amber vase\\nA Poet near my easel thinks\\nHer color-scheme was laid\\nBy that old Singer who once called\\nA girl The Nut-Browne Mayde.\\nOld Remus looks to where she sits.\\nPosing with half-turned head.\\nAnd says You gent men bof is wrong,\\nDat ual is Lrinoer-bread\\n62", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "A REGRET", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "A Regret\\nDar s always somethin wantin\\nIn my joy at bein free,\\nWhen I think oV Master didn t\\nLive to share dat joy with me.\\nDem was mighty big plantations\\nDat he owned before de war\\nAn he, de kindes master\\nDat darkies ever saw.\\nBut de care of dem was heavy,\\nMakin him de slave, not we\\nAn often I have heard him say\\nHe wished dat he was me\\nAn if he jes was livin\\nHe would have his wish, you see-\\nDem niid eers couldn t own him now,\\nAn Master would be free.\\n66", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^e^-^.-^^", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "BEATEN BISCUIT", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "Beaten Biscuit\\nOf course I ll L^ladly give de rule\\nI meks beat biscuit by,\\nDoueb I ain t sure dat vou will mek\\nDat bread de same as I.\\nCase cookin s like religion is\\nSome s lected, an some ain t,\\nAn rules don t no more mek a cook\\nDen sermons mek a Saint.\\nWell, bout de grediances required\\nI needn t mention dem,\\nOf course you knows of fiour and things.\\nHow much to put, an when\\nBut soon as you is got dat dough\\nMixed up all smoove an neat,\\nDen s when your genius gwine to show,\\nTo get dem biscuit beat\\nTwo hundred licks is what I gives\\nFor home-folks, never fewer.\\nAn if I m spectin company in,\\nI ogives five hundred sure\\n70", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "X", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "A PLANTATION HYMN", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "A Plantation Hymn\\nFar clown the west still crlows the liorht,\\nThough elsewhere it is night.\\nThe fields are quiet as the stars,\\nSave some one at the bars\\nWhose full heart, quivering- to the brim\\nFlows over in a hymn.\\nIt sends its strangely solemn tide\\nOf Hallelujahs, wide\\nAcross the fields, and up as far\\nAs to the fartherest star.\\nTill all the Southern night s in bloom\\nWith Sonor and vStar-sown crloom\\nAnd Fancy hears the Advent roll\\nThrough that old negro s soul\\n74", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2f\\n.J^nf", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "A Banjo Song\\nI plays cle banjo better now\\nDan him clat taught me do,\\nBecase he plays for all de worl\\nAn I jes plays for You.\\nHe learns his chimes^ I jes lets down\\nA banjo string or two\\nInto de deepest of my heart,\\nAn draws up 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mate.\\n80", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "The Borrowed Child\\nIt s took a siorht o chillun, sho\\nTo ease dat dull ol pain,\\nAn keep de pretty likeness fresh\\nOf my dead Anna Jane.\\nDer s more den forty years, you see,\\nSince she has been in Heaben,\\nBut wid de anofels years don t count-\\nSo she s still only seben.\\nTime treats us all up dere, des lak\\nIt do white ladies here\\nIt teches em so liijht one s still\\nA gal at forty year\\n83", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3592", "width": "2282", "jp2-path": "bandannaballads00weed_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "THE DEVIL S GARDEN", "height": "3592", "width": 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