Songs of Jamaica (1912)
Lub O’ Mine
DARLIN’, though you lub me still,
I feel it so,
To t’ink dat we neber will
Meet soon, you know;
Eben when you tell me say[1]
Dat your dear heart[2]
Did grow ‘tronger ebery day
An’ hate fe part.
Feelin’ all you’ lub for me,
I t’ink[3] you press
Your heart, as it use’ to be,[4]
Upon me breas’.
Lubin’ you wid all me soul,
De lub is such
Dat it beat out blood,[5] — de whole,[6]
An’ dat is much.
Lub, I dyin’[11] fe you’ smile,
An’ some sweet news
Dat can cheer me heart awhile
Fe wha’ it lose.
Lub me, darlin’ — lub, aldough
You are now gone:
You can never leave me so —
Friendless-alone.