Rose's red, vi'lets blue. Sugar is sweet but not lak you. De vi'lets fade, de roses fall; But you gits sweeter, all in all. As shore as de grass grows 'round de stump, You is my darlin' Sugar Lump. W'en de su... Read more of Roses Red at Martin Luther King.caInformational Site Network Informational
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Speak Softly




From: WISE SAYING SECTION

"Wus dat you spoke,
Or a fence rail broke?"
Br'er Rabbit say to de Jay
[50]W'en you don't speak sof',
Y[=o]' baits comes off;
An' de fish jes swim away.

[50] The last three lines of the rhyme was a superstition current among
antebellum Negroes.





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