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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Uncle Jim's Baptist Revival Hymn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">By Sidney and Clifford Lanier.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">[Not long ago a certain Georgia cotton-planter, driven to desperation<br>by awaking each morning to find that the grass had<br>quite outgrown the cotton overnight, and was likely to choke it,<br>in defiance of his lazy freedmen's hoes and ploughs,<br>set the whole State in a laugh by exclaiming to a group of fellow-sufferers:<br>"It's all stuff about Cincinnatus leaving the plough to go into politics<br>FOR PATRIOTISM; he was just a-runnin' from grass!"</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">This state of things -- when the delicate young rootlets of the cotton<br>are struggling against the hardier multitudes of the grass-suckers --<br>is universally described in plantation parlance by the phrase "in the grass";<br>and Uncle Jim appears to have found in it so much similarity<br>to the condition of his own ("Baptis'") church, overrun, as it was,<br>by the cares of this world, that he has embodied it in the refrain<br>of a revival hymn such as the colored improvisator of the South<br>not infrequently constructs from his daily surroundings.<br>He has drawn all the ideas of his stanzas from the early morning phenomena of<br>those critical weeks when the loud plantation-horn is blown before daylight,<br>in order to rouse all hands for a long day's fight against the common enemy<br>of cotton-planting mankind.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">In addition to these exegetical commentaries, the Northern reader<br>probably needs to be informed that the phrase "peerten up" means substantially<br>`to spur up', and is an active form of the adjective "peert"<br>(probably a corruption of `pert'), which is so common in the South,<br>and which has much the signification of "smart" in New England, as e.g.,<br>a "peert" horse, in antithesis to a "sorry" -- i.e., poor, mean, lazy one.]</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Solo. -- Sin's rooster's crowed, Ole Mahster's riz,<br> De sleepin'-time is pas';<br> Wake up dem lazy Baptissis,<br>Chorus. -- Dey's mightily in de grass, grass,<br> Dey's mightily in de grass.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Ole Mahster's blowed de mornin' horn,<br> He's blowed a powerful blas';<br>O Baptis' come, come hoe de corn,<br> You's mightily in de grass, grass,<br> You's mightily in de grass.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">De Meth'dis team's done hitched; O fool,<br> De day's a-breakin' fas';<br>Gear up dat lean ole Baptis' mule,<br> Dey's mightily in de grass, grass,<br> Dey's mightily in de grass.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,<br> De cotton's sheddin' fas';<br>Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,<br> Hit's mightily in de grass, grass,<br> Hit's mightily in de grass.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">De jay-bird squeal to de mockin'-bird: "Stop!<br> Don' gimme none o' yo' sass;<br>Better sing one song for de Baptis' crop,<br> Dey's mightily in de grass, grass,<br> Dey's mightily in de grass."</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And de ole crow croak: "Don' work, no, no;"<br> But de fiel'-lark say, "Yaas, yaas,<br>An' I spec' you mighty glad, you debblish crow,<br> Dat de Baptissis's in de grass, grass,<br> Dat de Baptissis's in de grass!"</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=518885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Lord, thunder us up to de plowin'-match,<br> Lord, peerten de hoein' fas',<br>Yea, Lord, hab mussy on de Baptis' patch,<br> Dey's mightily in de grass, grass,<br> Dey's mightily in de grass.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Sidney+Lanier">Sidney Lanier</a></strong></div>