One time a bunch o' us chillun was playin' in de woods an foun' some o' dem May apples.

Chillun is raisin' theirselves today.

"My wife is been dead 'bout seventeen years an' my chillun is so scattered dat

One time a bunch o' us chillun was playin' in de woods an foun' some o' dem May apples.

De white chillun was a-singin' dis song: 'Jeff Davis, long an' slim, Whupped old Abe wid a hick'ry limb.

All his chillun was girls.