Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose chords by Lizzie Miles
Verse 1
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I heard a Peek -A
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-Ninny cryin' down in Tennessee one night
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His little heart was
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almost breaking,
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just because he wasn't white.
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Then his dear old mammy kissed him.
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Said now honey, don't you cry,
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go to sleep my baby,
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as she sang this Dixie
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lullaby.
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You better dry your eyes,
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my little cool black rose,
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an d don't you cry.
You better go to sleep
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and let your eyelids close,
and hush a by,
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cause your dark don't start no pining.
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Use a cloud with a silver lining,
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and every old crow thinks
it's a baby's white -as -snow.
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Your dear old mammy knows,
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you're a mighty like a rose
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And when the angels
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gave those kinky curls to you,
so curly -Q.
They put a sunbeam in your disposition,
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too. I know it's Now the reason that you're so black,
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I suppose,
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they forgot to give your mammy
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a talcum -powdered shammy.
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So don't you cry, and don't you sigh
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Cause your mammy's a
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little cold like a rose you
Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose
Lizzie Miles
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