{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3305", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "3^ L%\\nA* V V f^.*A* .--???rf .o** V\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2T\\n.0^", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "*7 c\\n^**o^\\n1^", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "Songs of the Old South", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Songs of the\\nOld South\\nVerses and Drawings by\\nHoward Weeden\\nAuthor of Bandanna Ballads and Shadows on the Wall\\nril south with the sun and keep my clime\\nSidney Lanier\\nNEW YORK\\nDOUBLEDAY, PAGE COMPANY\\n1900", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "WOV 8 1900\\nCe^ynghl entry\\nsir^Np copy.\\nDtXvt-flrt to\\nOHUtH DiViStON,\\nrlOV ;d-i tijou\\n\\\\Q0O\\nCopyright, igoo, bv\\nHOWARD WEEDEN\\nICottaaoO.iPrtsa\\nJ. S. Cushing Co. Berwick Smith\\nNorwood Mass. U.S.A.", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "DEDICATED\\nTO\\nTHE ONE MOST DEAR", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Prefatory Note\\nT^HESE modest songs and pictures, snatched\\nX from the fading remnant of a people now\\nnearly passed away, are only valuable because the\\nPast is always precious, and only\\nbeautiful for beincr old and gone.", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Contents\\nWhen the Angels Call, 3\\nOld Watt and the Rabbits, 6\\nLeft Behind, 10\\nSilent Strings, 14\\nA Toast, 18\\nAt Ease, 22\\nThe Song of the Watcher, 26\\nDancing in the Sun, 30\\nA Song, 34\\nHush, 38\\nNocturn, 42\\nMullen, 46\\nOld Mis 50\\nWay down South, 54", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Contents\\nSitting in the Sun, 58\\nWhen Manners were in Bloom, 62\\nLong Ago, 66\\nThe Worst of W^ar, 70\\nResting, 74\\nHard Worked, yS\\nThe Cotton Bloom, 82\\nAt Last, 86\\nThe Arabian Nights, 90\\nFrost Work, 94", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "WHEN THE ANGELS CALL", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "When the Angels Call\\nMammy, dear Mammy, what do you see\\nWhen you lift such wistful eyes\\nFaces, my chile, of dem dat are gone\\nWho smile at me out of de skies.\\nMammy, dear Mammy, what do you hear\\nWhen you look so far away\\nVoices biddin me come, my chile,\\nTo Heaven, to rest an stay\\nAn Mammy would gladly go to dat rest\\nWhen de angels beckon so\\nBut who would pillow her baby s hade\\nIf baby s Mammy should go", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "OLD WATT AND THE RABBITS", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "Old Watt and the Rabbits\\nDat thing of rabbits havin sense\\nLike other folks, is gospel true\\nI ve heard it tole by dem dat knows\\nAn sides of dat I ve seen it too;\\nOne night I come home thro de woods\\nAn in a clearin mungst de oaks,\\nI saw some rabbits havin church\\nAs pompous as de bes of folks\\nDey give experience, an dey sung,\\nAn den dey zorted, an den prayed,\\nAn everything was done de way\\nDat other sinners church is made\\nAn while one preached de others slept\\nAs sensible as we all do\\nAn den, de meetin havin broke,\\nDey went like us, home two an two.\\nAn when dey gin to pint an talk\\nBout one another mean, why dcji\\nI says, says I, dem rabbits sho\\nGot sense de same as men\\n6", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "LEFT BEHIND", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "Left Behind\\nWhen my ole Master took down sick\\nI nussed him till he died,\\nAn many a pleasant day we had\\nMe sittin by his side.\\nWe talked about de ole, ole times,\\nPart fun, an part de truth,\\nBut mostly Master mused on Her,\\nDe Mistis of our youth\\nShe was so bright an quick, he said,\\nShe even died dat way\\nAn went before him forty years\\nA-smilin swif an gay\\nBut you slow cuss, he said to me,\\nYou always ivas behin\\nCome on an wid dat word he went\\nAn lef his hand in mine", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "1", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "SILENT STRINGS", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "Silent Strings\\nFor all dat it hangs so silent now,\\nDis banjo once was gay,\\nAn it wove de dreams dat I had of her\\nInto chunes as sweet as May.\\nAn often I thought that its quiverin strings\\nMust be of myse f a part\\nElse how could dey tingle an thrill as dey did\\nIf her shadow but fell on my heart\\nBut de dreams an de chunes has bof passed away\\nAn nothin is lef for to tell her:\\nDe banjo she likes bes to listen to now^\\nIs played by a happier feller\\n14", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "A TOAST", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "A Toast\\nWhenever you want a drink dat shall mean\\nDe best in de way of water,\\nJes manage to take it out of a gode\\nAn den hit will taste like hit ous^hter.\\nNo matter de place, hit will put you at home\\nAs if you an godes was kin,\\nAn you know you can t feel as friendly as dat\\nWid a citified dipper of tin\\nYou can drink to de fields, you can drink to\\nde crops\\nYou can drink to your work an your load\\nYou can drink to everything simple an true,\\nWhen you drinks fum a country gode", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "AT EASE", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "At Ease\\nI tried to live in town, but oh\\nDe town was swif an I was slow,\\nSo back I came to de cotton rows\\nAn one ole mule I m sure I knows.\\nHe don t expect no more of me,\\nThank God, den I expects of he\\nAn I don t spect no more of he\\nDen likewise he expects of me.\\nSo I don t feel ashamed no mo\\nOf bein black an mean an 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"Nocturn\\nWhen de weary clay in de fields is done,\\nAn you plods todes home at night,\\nDe light dat you sees in your cabin-door\\nIs sweet as a heabenly sight,\\nAn it glows through de glimmerin purple\\ndusk\\nWid a lioht dat is tender an true.\\nWhen you know dat it s busy cookin for you\\nA handsome possum-stew!\\n42", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "MULLEN", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "Mull\\nen\\nYou may say all you will of what doctors kin do\\nWid deir scriptions an dat sort of talk,\\nBut if you is sick an wants to be cured,\\nJis git you a good mullen stalk!\\nDe mullen don t need fer to feel of your pulse,\\nNor to ask about how do you do\\nDe tea when you ve swallowed hit knows where\\nto go\\nDout askin no questions of you.\\nOf course dere are things even mullen can t do\\nLike makin a fool-nigger smart,\\nAn dey say dat de strongest dose ever took.\\nNever cured a achin heart.\\nBut for natchel, old-fashioned, an everyday\\npains\\nLike sensible folks do have,\\nJis take a good swallow of she-mullen tea\\nAn tech up wid she-mullen salve\\n46", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "OLD MIS", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "Old Mis\\nYou never knowed Ole Mis you say?\\nWell, dat s a pity, shore\\nDe sort of Quality she was\\nIs gone to come no more.\\nHer gracious word was like a Queen s,\\nSo kine an yet so strong\\nWe all kep time to her sof speech\\nLike marchin to a song.\\nA nigger didn t dare to die\\nNor marry on our place\\nWidout she give her blessin an\\nHer pinion on de case\\nShe knowed more den de doctors, case\\nGod tole her what to give\\nShe knowed more den de preachers, case\\nGod tole her how to live.\\nDat ole plantation hit was run\\nOn rangements bout like dis\\nDe place hit b longed to Master, but\\nOle Master b longed to Mis\\n50", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "WAY DOWN SOUTH", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "Way Down South\\nAn azure sky a warm brown face\\nSoft black eyes and a dazzling mouth\\nA red bandanna, touched with gold\\nAnd this is the color way down South.\\nA bird that plays on a mocking flute\\nA melting drawl from a smiling mouth\\nA tinkling banjo hid in the shade\\nAnd this is the music, way down South.\\n54", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "SITTING IN THE SUN", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "Sitting in the Sun\\nLong time I wandered far from home,\\nBut now my travelHng s done\\nI m way down South once more once more\\nAn sittin in de sun.\\nIt warms my cold old blood again\\nAn brings back youth an fun,\\nAn I jes dozes sleeps an dreams\\nA-sittin in de sun.\\nDe warm wind brings de scents I knew\\nWhen life was jes begun.\\nAn faces dat I early loved\\nSmile at me in de sun.\\nAn some day when de sleep is sound.\\nMy soul will slip an run\\nFrom dis ole Self dat sits an smiles\\nSo 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as natchel as life\\nBow in a kin of dream\\nHis manners was certainly quality ways,\\nDe finest dat ever I see;\\nDough folks used to laugh an say dat he took\\nDem gilt-edged ways from me\\n62", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "LONG AGO", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "Long Ago\\nBrightes heavens used to smile\\nBlue an low,\\nSoftes breezes used to sigh,\\nLong Ago\\nReddest roses used to bend,\\nBlush, an blow,\\nFaires mornings used to dawn,\\nLong Ago\\nSweetes smile of all the smiles\\nI used to know.\\nMade de worl like dat for me\\nLons: Ao^o\\n66", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": 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because\\nOf her delicate grace and perfume,\\nBut lovers for studier reasons give\\nTheir hearts to the cotton bloom\\nIt grows in a dazzling ample land\\nOf measureless breadth and room\\nAnd the wealth of a splendid tropical sun\\nDowers this cotton bloom.\\nAnd Capital keeps his eyes on the field\\nWhile he hears the hum of the loom,\\nAnd his anxious visage glows and pales\\nAt the nod of the cotton bloom\\n82", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "z:^", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "AT LAST", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "At Last\\nDe road is grown so rough an dark\\nI tries no more to roam\\nI m standin tired by de way\\nFer God to lead me Home.\\nDe friends I knew are gone, an none\\nAre lef to understan\\nBut God, who loves an understan s,\\nHe holds me by de ban\\nA lonely Peace is come at las\\nAn now I waitin see\\nDe hinderin things all fall away\\nAn leave jes God an me\\n86", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "lo ^V^", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "LofC.", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "THE ARABIAN NIGHTS", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "The Arabian Nights\\nWhen Hfe was young an idle rhyme\\nCould charm the happy time,\\nAnd Mammy gave us, with a kiss,\\nA song that went like this:\\nDe Squirrel has a bushy tail,\\nDe Possum s tail am bare,\\nDe Raccoon s tail am ringed all round,\\nDe old Hare s tail aint dere.\\nOur Mammy was the wit and sage\\nOf 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cabin wall\\nAn weave a little song in praise\\nOf Possum-time an fall\\nWhen evenin fires softly throw\\nYour tremblin shadow tall\\nTo meet an kiss Her shadow as\\nIt beckons on de wall\\nTis time to take your banjo down\\nAn make de music stir\\nW^id weavin happy songs in praise\\nOf Possum-time an Her\\n94", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "15^\\nW23", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": ".7i .0\\n4^\\nj^^\\nv j5\\nO\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00c2\u00bbbi.*", "height": "3065", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "songsofoldsouthv00weed_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "r^V*. 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