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TRANSCRIPTIONS. 193VII.TRANSCRIPTIONS*1. A PLANTATION CHANT.HIT'S eighteen hunder'd forty-en-fo',Christ done open dat He'v.'mly do'An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer;Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-five, *Christ done made dat dead man aliveAn' I don't wanter stay yer no longer.You ax me ter run home,Little childunRun home, dat sun done rollAn' I don't wanter stay yer no longer.Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-six,Christ is got us a place done fixAn' I don't wanter stay yer no longer;Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-sev'mChrist done sot a table in Hev'mAn' I don't wanter stay yer no longer.* If these are adaptations from songs the negroes have caughtfrom the whites, their origin is very remote. I have transcribedthem literally, and I regard them as in the highest degree characteristic.28