Miss Lucy Long
(Alternately: Lucy Long)
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 jist come out afore you,
To sing a little song,
I plays it on the banjo
And dey calls it Lucy Long,
Verse 2
Miss Lucy she is han’some
And Miss Lucy, she is tall,
To see her dance Cachucha
Is death to Niggers all
Verse 3
Oh! Miss Lucy’s teeth is grinning
Just like an ear ob corn,
And her eyes dey look so winning!
Oh would I ne’er been born.
Verse 4
I axed her for to marry
Myself de toder day
She said she’d rader tarry
So I let her hab her way
Publication Information
Published by T.E. Purday, 50 St. Paul’s Church Yard, London.
British Library Shelf Number: H.1652.v
Accessioned: 10 October 1849