Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1910 — Old Favorites [ARTICLE]

Old Favorites

Hot Time in the Old Town To-Xl<ht. Come along, get you ready, wear your bran, bran new gown. For dere’s gwine to be a meeting la that good, good, old town Where you knowed everybody, and dey all knowed you. And you’ve got a rabbit’s foot to keep away de hoo-doo. When you hear dat the preachin’ does begin, i. Bend down low, for to drive away your ■ln, And when you gets religion, you want to shout and sing, There’ll be a hot time In the old town to-night, my baby. Chorus— When you hear dem a-bells go ding, ling, ling, All join ’round and sweetly you must sing; And when the verse am through, in the chorus all join In, There’ll be a hot time ih the old towa to-night! There’ll be girls for everybody In that good, good, old town. For dere’s Mis’ Consola Davis and dere’s Mis’ GOndolla Brown, And dere’s Mis’ Johanna Beasley, she am dressed all in red, I just hugged her and kissed her, and to me den she said: "Please, oh, please, oh, do not let me fall. You’re all mine, and I love you best ot all, And you must be my man, or I’ll have no man at all, There’ll be a hot time In the old tow« to-night, my baby.’’ —Theodore A. Metz. Lite. A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in, A moment to laugh and an hour te weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble. And never a laugh but the.moans come double. x And that is life. A crust and a corner that love makes precious With the smiles to warm and the tears to refresh us And joys seem sweeter when cares come after, And a moan Is the finest of foils for laughter— . And that is life. —Paul Laurence Dunbar.