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       Benjamin Franklin King

      Ben King's Verse

      Published by Good Press, 2020

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      EAN 4064066438067

Table of Contents

       Introduction

       Biography

       If I Should Die

       Say When, And Say It

       Gettin' Inter Shape

       Evolution

       Gedder in Yo' Grain

       Jane Jones

       Elopement

       Her Folks An' Hiz'n

       The Yaller Jackets' Nest

       How Hank Died

       How Often

       Benton Harbor, Mich.

       Asphodel

       The Flowers' Ball

       De Sun's Comin' Back

       The River St. Joe

       Baby Up at Battenberg's

       No Harm Done

       The Fates

       Paraphrase

       If I Can Be By Her

       Toboggan

       De Bugle On De Hill

       Old St. Joe

       The Tramp

       The Chautauquan Maid

       I'm a Bluejay

       'Rastus King

       That Valentine

       De Good Ship

       A Casual Observation

       Like the New Friends Best

       A Negro Song of Home

       S'posin'

       Little 'Rasmus

       Nobody Knows

       She Does Not Hear

       Down the Mississippi

       The Mermaid

       De Blackbird Fetched De Spring

       Appearances

       The Girl With the Jersey

       If My Wife Taught School

       The Old Spinning Wheel

       The Owl and the Crow

       De Clouds Am Gwine Ter Pass

       A Summer's Afternoon

       I Fed the Fishes

       Old Bossie Cow

       That Cat

       A Frog's Thanksgiving

       Lovely-Loves

       Hank Spink

       The Nile

       Like De Ole Mule Bes'