The First Wench Done Turned White 1897

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 21 November 2010
2010

There's a lot of argmentation
round the colored population
'bout Liza Green the wench
that changed her color.
She has got the folks excited,
but she seems to be delighted,
from a coal black she first changed in to a yellow
The colored folks dispise her
they once did idolize her
and thought that she was really out of sight.
She's done gone shook her fellow
likewise her own real color,
she's the first wench that they've seen turn white.

Says Miss Liza Green,
you will seldom see
another wench
that can change like me.
Now I will happy be
morning noon and night
no coal black coons will now be seen,
a walkin' round with Miss Liza Green,
It ain't no use to argufy
I'm the first wench turned to white,

says Miss Liza Green,
you will seldom see
another wench
that can change like me.
Now I will happy be
morning noon and night
no coal black coons will now be seen,
a walkin' round with Miss Liza Green,
It ain't no use to argufy
I'm the first wench turned to white.

When this change made its appearance
colored folks then made a clearance
They said who ever did it was to blame.
Now they cannot understand it
why a wench should so demand it
Especially one who wears a colored name.
She's bought a dress to match it
with white they've had to patch it,
no other wenches with her can keep time.
All the coons that called her Liza
say from this out they'll dispise her
For she's bound to draw the color line.

Says Miss Liza Green,
you will seldom see
another wench
that can change like me.
Now I will happy be
morning noon and night
no coal black coons will now be seen,
a walkin' round with Miss Liza Green,
It ain't no use to argufy
I'm the first wench turned to white,

says Miss Liza Green,
you will seldom see
another wench
that can change like me.
Now I will happy be
morning noon and night
no coal black coons will now be seen,
a walkin' round with Miss Liza Green,
It ain't no use to argufy
I'm the first wench turned to white.

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The First Wench Done Turned White 1897
by Ed.Rogers
© 1897 by F.A.Mills
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 21 November 2010 at 21.22
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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