Lucy Neal
(Alternately: De Rose Ob Alabama - Lucy Neal, Miss Lucy Neale)
For information on this song as part of the blackface minstrel tradition, please see
its page in The Juba Project's Minstrelsy Database.
For an alternate interpretation of this song, see The Mid-Atlantic Minstrel Show -- another item in this project's 'Artists Respond to Juba' section.
Credits
Art Babayants, piano; Alison Jutzi, vocals; Dennis Patrick, sound technician.
Lyrics
Verse 1
I was born in Alabama
My Massa name was Beale
He us’d to own a Yallar gall
Her name was Lucy Neal
She us’d to go out wid us
Picking cotton in de field
And dere’s whar first I fell in lub
wid my sweet Lucy Neal
Verse 2
One night de Niggers gabe a ball
Miss Lucy danc’d a reel
Dere war no darkies in de hall
Could dance like Lucy Neal
My Massa he did sell me
Bekase he thought I’d steal
Which caus’d a separation ob
Myself and Lucy Neal
Verse 3
Publication Information
Published by John Mitchell, Publisher to her Majesty. 33, Old Bond Street, London.
British Library Shelf Number: H.1435(1)