489. When I Die Don't Wear No Black

489
When I Die Don't Wear No Black

A fragment, embodying a superstition ; known by the Negroes (NWS 129, and less closely 128). I have not found it elsewhere.

'Song.' Contributed by Miss Lucille Cheek, from Chatham county.

When 1 die don't wear no black,

hOr if you do

My ghost come a-creeping back.