Part of an old folk song: Run, Nigger, Run!

Run, Nigger, run! De Patter-rollers'll ketch you.
Run, Nigger, run! It's almos day.

Dat Nigger run'd, dat Nigger flew,
Dat Nigger tore his shu't in two.

All over dem woods and frou de paster,
Dem Patter-rollers shot; but de Nigger git faster,

Oh, dat Nigger whirl'd, dat Nigger wheel'd,
Dat Nigger tore up de whole co'n field