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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477960" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Whistling Sam</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I has hyeahd o' people dancin' an' I 's hyeahd o' people singin'.<br>An' I 's been 'roun' lots of othahs dat could keep de banjo ringin';<br>But of all de whistlin' da'kies dat have lived an' died since Ham,<br>De whistlin'est I evah seed was ol' Ike Bates's Sam.<br>In de kitchen er de stable, in de fiel' er mowin' hay,<br>You could hyeah dat boy a-whistlin' pu'ty nigh a mile erway,--<br>Puck'rin' up his ugly features 'twell you could n't see his eyes,<br>Den you 'd hyeah a soun' lak dis un f'om dat awful puckah rise:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When dey had revival meetin' an' de Lawd's good grace was flowin'<br>On de groun' dat needed wat'rin' whaih de seeds of good was growin',<br>While de othahs was a-singin' an' a-shoutin' right an' lef,<br>You could hyeah dat boy a-whistlin' kin' o' sof beneaf his bref:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At de call fu' colo'ed soldiers, Sam enlisted 'mong de res'<br>Wid de blue o' Gawd's great ahmy wropped about his swellin' breas',<br>An' he laffed an' whistled loudah in his youfful joy an' glee<br>Dat de govament would let him he'p to mek his people free.<br>Daih was lots o' ties to bin' him, pappy, mammy, an' his Dinah,--<br>Dinah, min' you, was his sweet-hea't, an' dey was n't nary finah;<br>But he lef 'em all, I tell you, lak a king he ma'ched away,<br>Try'n' his level bes' to whistle, happy, solemn, choky, gay:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To de front he went an' bravely fought de foe an' kep' his sperrit,<br>An' his comerds said his whistle made 'em strong when dey could </div><div style="margin:10px 0">hyeah it.<br>When a saber er a bullet cut some frien' o' his'n down,<br>An' de time 'u'd come to trench him an' de boys 'u'd gethah 'roun',<br>An' dey could n't sta't a hymn-tune, mebbe none o' dem 'u'd keer,<br>Sam 'u'd whistle 'Sleep in Jesus,' an' he knowed de Mastah 'd hyeah.<br>In de camp, all sad discouraged, he would cheer de hea'ts of all,<br>When above de soun' of labour dey could hyeah his whistle call:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When de cruel wah was ovah an' de boys come ma'chin' back,<br>Dey was shouts an' cries an' blessin's all erlong dey happy track,<br>An' de da'kies all was happy; souls an' bodies bofe was freed.<br>Why, hit seemed lak de Redeemah mus' 'a' been on earf indeed.<br>Dey was gethahed all one evenin' jes' befo' de cabin do',<br>When dey hyeahd somebody whistlin' kin' o' sof' an' sweet an' low.<br>Dey could n't see de whistlah, but de hymn was cleah and ca'm,<br>An' dey all stood daih a-listenin' ontwell Dinah shouted, 'Sam!'<br>An' dey seed a little da'ky way off yandah thoo de trees<br>Wid his face all in a puckah mekin' jes' sich soun's ez dese:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a><div class=q>
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An' I 's been 'roun' lots of othahs dat could keep de banjo ringin';
But of all de whistlin' da'kies dat have lived an' died since Ham,
De whistlin'est I evah seed was ol' Ike Bates..."></div>
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