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Heard de owl a hootin', / Knowed somebody's 'bout to die.
Heard de owl a hootin', / Knowed somebody's 'bout to die.
Put ma head un'neath de kiver, / Started in to moan an' cry.
Hound dawg's barkin'
Means he's gonna leave this world.
Hound dawg's barkin'
Means he's gonna leave this world.
O, Lawd have mercy / On a po' black girl.
Black an' ugly / But he sho do treat me kind.
I'm black an' ugly / But he sho do treat me kind.
High-in-heaben Jesus, / Please don't take this man o' mine.