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That little yaller gal / Wid blue-green eyes:
If her daddy ain't white / Would be a surprise.
She don't drink gin / An' she don't like corn.
I asked her one night / Where she was born.
An' she say, Honey, / I don't know / Where I come from / Or where I go.
That crazy little yaller gal / Wid blue-green eyes:
If her daddy ain't 'fay / Would be a surprise.
An' there she sets a cryin'
In de cabaret / A lookin' all sad / When she ought to play.
My God, I says, / You can't live that way!
Babe, you can't / Live that way!