Miss Lucy Long
(Alternately: Lucy Long)

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

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Lyrics

Verse 1
I jist come out afore you,
To sing a little song,
I plays it on the banjo
And dey calls it Lucy Long,

Verse 2
Miss Lucy she is han’some
And Miss Lucy, she is tall,
To see her dance Cachucha
Is death to Niggers all

Verse 3
Oh! Miss Lucy’s teeth is grinning
Just like an ear ob corn,
And her eyes dey look so winning!
Oh would I ne’er been born.

Verse 4
I axed her for to marry
Myself de toder day
She said she’d rader tarry
So I let her hab her way

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Publication Information

Published by T.E. Purday, 50 St. Paul’s Church Yard, London.

British Library Shelf Number: H.1652.v

Accessioned: 10 October 1849