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 The Mid-Atlantic Minstrel Show -- another item in this project's 'Artists Respond to Juba' section.

Credits

Art Babayants, piano; Alison Jutzi, vocals; Dennis Patrick, sound technician.

Lyrics

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Verse 1
As I war goin down de way,
down de way, down de way,
I met a hansum Gal an say
Oh you are berry fair.

Oh den along on de ribber we’ll go,
on de ribber we’ll go, on de ribber we’ll go,
Oh den along on de ribber we’ll go,
All along by de light ob de moon.

Verse 2
I said to her O how you do?
How you do? how you do?
She said to me what’s dat to you?
In manner so purlite.

Oh den along on de ribber we’ll go,
on de ribber we’ll go, on de ribber we’ll go,
Oh den along on de ribber we’ll go,
All along by de light ob de moon.

Verse 3
I lik’d dat Gal she war so fat,
War so fat, war so fat,
Oh if she war my wife
Den dat Would be all I require.

Oh den along on de ribber we’ll go,
on de ribber we’ll go, on de ribber we’ll go,
Oh den along on de ribber we’ll go,
All along by de light ob de moon.

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

Publication Information

Published by B. Williams, II. Paternoster Row, & 170 Gt. Dovor Rd., London.

British Library Shelf Number: H.2342

Accessioned: 08 November 1856