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"As I went runn' tru de fill'

A black snake kotch me by the heel;

Run, nigger, run de patteroller ketch you;

Run, nigger, run fur hit almos day."

"I run so hard, I run my bes',

I run my head in a hornets nes';

Run, nigger, run de patteroller ketch you;

Run, nigger, run fur hit almos day."

-Sondley, Dr. F.A., A History of Buncombe County, p. 482.