Chorus (repeated after each verse.)
"Old massa run away, hah, hah,
De darkies say, hah, hah, hah!
So he big enough, he old enough, he ought to know better,
Dan fo' go and run away.
"He sick[1] foot one way, two foot t'other,
And 'um weigh tree hundred pound;
He coat so big he couldn't pay de tailor.
So 'um won' go ralf[2] way round.
"He drill so much dat dem call him cap'ain,
He get so dreadfully tan;
I speck he want fool them Yankee
So dem tink he countryman."
IV.—Angelina Baker.
"My Angelina is so tall,
She nebber sees the ground;
She has to take a telescope,
When she get down in de town.
Angelina love the boys
As far as she can see them.
She used to follow old massa round,
And beg him for de freedom.
Chorus. Angelina Baker
"Wey down the old plantation.
Da whey[3] I lived and barn,
I use go beat the whole creation,
When we living in de carn.
Den I work and den I sing,
So happy all the day,
Till Angelina Baker (came)
And tief my heart away.
Chorus. Angelina Baker.
"I met my Angelina in the springtime, on the fall,
I meet she in de carn and den meet she at de ball;
And evbery time I met her she was smiling like the sun,
And she leab me here, to weep a tear,
And stand in de sun and bun.<ref>Burn.</pref>
Chorus. Angelina Baker."
