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A Negro Sermon	A
To be read in your own variety of negro dialect	B
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Legree's big house was white and green	C
His cotton fields were the best to be seen	C
He had strong horses and opulent cattle	D
And bloodhounds bold with chains that would rattle	D
His garret was full of curious things	E
Books of magic bags of gold	F
And rabbits' feet on long twine strings	E
BUT HE WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL	D
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Legree he sported a brass buttoned coat	G
A snake skin necktie a blood red shirt	H
Legree he had a beard like a goat	G
And a thick hairy neck and eyes like dirt	H
His puffed out cheeks were fish belly white	I
He had great long teeth and an appetite	I
He ate raw meat 'most every meal	J
And rolled his eyes till the cat would squeal	J
His fist was an enormous size	K
To mash poor niggers that told him lies	K
He was surely a witch man in disguise	K
BUT HE WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL	D
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He wore hip boots and would wade all day	L
To capture his slaves that had fled away	L
BUT HE WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL	D
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He beat poor Uncle Tom to death	M
Who prayed for Legree with his last breath	M
Then Uncle Tom to Eva flew	N
To the high sanctoriums bright and new	N
And Simon Legree stared up beneath	O
And cracked his heels and ground his teeth	O
AND WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL	D
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He crossed the yard in the storm and gloom	P
He went into his grand front room	P
He said I killed him and I don't care	Q
He kicked a hound he gave a swear	Q
He tightened his belt he took a lamp	R
Went down cellar to the webs and damp	R
There in the middle of the mouldy floor	S
He heaved up a slab he found a door	S
AND WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL	D
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His lamp blew out but his eyes burned bright	I
Simon Legree stepped down all night	I
DOWN DOWN TO THE DEVIL	D
Simon Legree he reached the place	T
He saw one half of the human race	T
He saw the Devil on a wide green throne	U
Gnawing the meat from a big ham bone	U
And he said to Mister Devil	D
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I see that you have much to eat	V
A red ham bone is surely sweet	V
I see that you have lion's feet	V
I see your frame is fat and fine	W
I see you drink your poison wine	W
Blood and burning turpentine	W
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And the Devil said to Simon Legree	X
I like your style so wicked and free	X
Come sit and share my throne with me	X
And let us bark and revel	D
And there they sit and gnash their teeth	O
And each one wears a hop vine wreath	O
They are matching pennies and shooting craps	Y
They are playing poker and taking naps	Y
And old Legree is fat and fine	W
He eats the fire he drinks the wine	W
Blood and burning turpentine	W
DOWN DOWN WITH THE DEVIL	D
DOWN DOWN WITH THE DEVIL	D
DOWN DOWN WITH THE DEVIL	D

Vachel Lindsay

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