Walkin', a-walkin', a-walkin', I say;

voiceCollected by Irene Carlisle Transcribed by Mary C. Parler Doney Hammontree Bethel Grove, Arkansas March 11, 1951 Reel 101, Item 3 Creation Walkin', a-walkin', a-walkin', I say; Walkin' in de parlor to hear de banjo play; Walkin' in de parlor to hear de banjo ring; See de nigger's fingers as he hits 'em on de strings. Just from old Virginia with a head full of knowledge, Never went to free school or any other college; One thing I can tell you, it a certain fack, How the world was made in a twinkle and a crack. Walkin', etc. The earth was made in six days, and then they made the sky; Then they hung it overhead and left it there to dry; Then they made the stars out of nigger wenches eyes, To give a little light when the moon don't rise. Walkin', etc. Adam was Pop and Eve was Mother; Cain walked the treadmill because he killed his brother; Jacob couldn't sleep good 'kase he didn't have a piller; Greatest man that ever lived was Jack the Giant-Killer. Walkin', etc. Lightnin' was a yellow gal, she lived in the clouds; Thunder was a black man, because he hollered loud. When he kissed Lightnin', made her dodge and wonder; She ran away and tore her clothes, and that caused thunder. Walkin', etc. Wind begin to blow and rain begin to fall; River riz immediately and drowned the niggers all; Forty days and nights, ezactly by the countin', Landed Noah's ark in the Ozark Mountains. Walkin', etc.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation