Teaching About Mothers’ Love in 1901!

“Cornfield Lullaby”

By o’ Babun, dark yo’ shinin’ eye,

Snuggle soft and calm;

‘For yo’ come I wanted foh to die –

Lambie, O mah lamb!

Ole brack Sin war standin’ at de door,

Lookin’ roun’ foh me;

But I ‘spect yo’se skeered him off, foh shore,

‘Case he’s lef’ me be.

Kids of Many Colors.

By Grace Duffie Boylan and Ike Morgan.

Hurst and Company Publishers: New York. 1901.