forty-en-lev'm

Updated: May 5, 2025

You ax me ter run home, Little childun Run home, dat sun done roll An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-ten, Christ is de mo'ner's onliest fr'en' An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-lev'm, Christ 'll be at de do' w'en we all git ter Hev'm An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer.

Joel Chandler Harris - Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings