32 Next to the Ground 



in the white-hot sunshine, bar answering bar, 

 three hundred yards apart, they sang the 

 fallow song. 



\IRD-ETE lady tell de pigin 



" Howdy! " 

 Bird-eye lady sooner in de 



mornin' ! 

 Pigin flop an' flap tell he 



make de wort* cloudy ! 

 Bird-eye lady sooner in de 



mornin' 



Bird-eye lady ! Bird-eye lady ! 

 Bird-eye lady cloud so cool an shady ! 

 Bird-eye lady tell de pigin " Howdy ! " 

 Bird-eye lady sooner in de mornin' 

 Cloud talk "Rain!" an de rain talk: " Res', sir! " 

 Den de nigger an de mule kick dey heels up an 



say " Tes sir ! " 

 Bird-eye lady see de mules er crawlin'! 



Bird-eye lady, sooner in de mornin'! 

 Bird-eye lady hear de rain- crow callin'! 

 Bird-eye lady sooner in de mornin'! 



Bird-eye lady hear de rain-crow callin'! 

 Bird-eye lady here 's de rain erfallin! 

 Rain-crow tell de crab-grass : " Grow! Don't 



you res', sir ! " 



De crab-grass answer back : " Yes sir! Tes sir! 

 Tes sir! Yes sir ! " 



