Buffalo Gals
(Alternately: Buffallo Gals, Buffallo Gal)

For information on this song as part of the blackface minstrel tradition, please see
its page in The Juba Project's Minstrelsy Database.

For an alternate interpretation of this song, see Minstrels in the Parlour -- another item in this project's 'Artists Respond to Juba' section.

Credits

Andrew Dale, vocals and tambourine; Tom Power, banjo; Kate Bevan-Baker, fiddle; Mark Turner, tambourine and backing vocals; Justin Merdsoy, sound technician.

Lyrics

As I was lumb’ring down de street, down de street, down de street,
A handsome girl I chanc’d to meet; Oh! she was fair to view.

I ax’d her would she hab some talk, hab some talk, hab some talk,
Her feet coverd up de whole sidewalk, As she stood close by me.

I ax’d her would she hab a dance,  hab a dance, hab a dance,
I tought dat I might get a chance, To shake a foot wid her.

I’d like to make dat gal my wife, gal my wife, gal my wife,
I’d be happy all my life, If I had her by me.

Chorus
Buffalo gals, can’t you come out tonight,
can’t you come out tonight, can’t you come out tonight?
Buffalo gals can’t you come out tonight?
And dance by de light ob de moon.

Publication Information

Publisher: unknown