My Zulu Baby 1898

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26 Nov 2004

Oh my buzzum is a puffin up wid pleasure
an I catch myself a singin all de day
'bout a plump an' little
russetcoloured treasure
dat de wheel o' fortune tumbled in my way.
She's as sweet as sugar
ever made a nigger;
she's as purty as a collud gal kin be;
an she knows dat I'm a goner on her figger,
an I reckon she's a little stuck on me.

Swell ducks don't cut no figger;
I'se jes a chicken nigger,
but I luvs my baby, deed I do;
She's got de milk an' honey;
I'se got de paper money;
look out fur me an my Zulu Baby

Swell ducks don't cut no figger;
I'se jes a chicken nigger,
but I luvs my baby, deed I do;
She's got de milk an' honey;
I'se got de paper money;
look out fur me an my Zu..

When de summer comes,
I sail her down de river,
when de winter comes,
I take her to de ball;
in de spring
I am de man dats always wiv her;
an I couldn't leave my baby in de fall.
Dars another cullud feller dats a seekin
fur to steal my little baby from her man;
but I got my rubbers on
an I'm a sneakin' up
to carve him in de kidney if I can.

Swell ducks don't cut no figger;
I'se jes a chicken nigger,
but I luvs my baby, deed I do;
She's got de milk an' honey;
I'se got de paper money;
look out fur me an my Zulu Baby

Swell ducks don't cut no figger;
I'se jes a chicken nigger,
but I luvs my baby, deed I do;
She's got de milk an' honey;
I'se got de paper money;
look out fur me an my Zu..

O de y'other night I put de question to her,
an it made my little baby weep her weep;
but my love had sopped
an perkelated through her,
so she fell upon my buzzum in a heap;
Den I clinched de argyment
an yas I kissed her;
talk about yer watermilyon an yer pie;
Fur a day or two she had a fever blister
but termorrer we'll git married on de sly.

Swell ducks don't cut no figger;
I'se jes a chicken nigger,
but I luvs my baby, deed I do;
She's got de milk an' honey;
I'se got de paper money;
look out fur me an my Zulu Baby

Swell ducks don't cut no figger;
I'se jes a chicken nigger,
but I luvs my baby, deed I do;
She's got de milk an' honey;
I'se got de paper money;
look out fur me an my Zu..

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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My Zulu Baby 1898
Words by W.H. Landvoigt. Music by Ben Judson
© 1898 by Hambay Music Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 26 November 2004 at 12.00
in association with Doug Grierson
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