Poor Little Bad Boys

[oneighty]

O'er in de grave yard
Knocking down de stones
Jumping up and down 'n
Singing "Rattle dem bones"

Now dem bones they done be
Rattle on yer haids
'Cause you mak'in plenti noise
To be ris'n up de daid.

Poor little bad boys.

Based on a true happening in Charleston, South Carolina.

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[JitterbugPerfume]

1. little boys do stuff like that occasionally

were YOU one of the boys Ed?


tell the truth hee hee

[Droopy]

2. I like the way that you use dialect in the poem

Believe it or not that's pretty close to the way I talk. :hi:

[oneighty]

3. My wife

and her family were Gullah speakers when I first met them. The Patois is being lost with the passage of time.

Radio and television are to blame I always thought.

I had many Gullah speaking friends that I could barely understand.

It is fun trying to reconstruct that which I remember.

Updewindo.- My new wife once ordered me. I say "Huh?"

Hee hee hee

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