Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup - HTML preview

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ROARING RIVER.

A REFRAIN OF THE RED RIVER PLANTATION.

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"Harper's creek and roarin' ribber,

Thar, my dear, we'll live forebber;

Den we'll go to de Ingin nation,

All I want in dis creation,

Is pretty little wife and big plantation.

CHORUS.

Up dat oak and down dat ribber,

Two overseers and one little nigger."