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1
We had doctors to wait on us
iffen
we got sick and ailing.
2
He let dem teach us how to read
iffen
we wanted to learn.
3
Everybody oughta live right, though you won't have no friends
iffen
you do.
4
I bet he'd eat pork
iffen
he didn't have nothin' else to eat.
5
Yessum,
iffen
you could get to the Yankee's camp you was free right now.
6
It was good to fill you up
iffen
you was hungry and was nourishing, too.
7
Den he wouldn't bother you and
iffen
he did old master would git on 'em.
8
He allus lent us a wagon
iffen
we want to borry one to go in, too.
9
But we know dey soon be gone, and den we git a whipping
iffen
we do.
10
Dem patrollers tied you to a whipping post
iffen
dey caught you out after 10 o'clock.
11
Bushwhackers whipped you
iffen
you stayed out late, and sho' nuff if dey didn't lak you.
12
Yo sho hed better 'spect him, en
iffen
yo didn't dat strop wud be er flyin'.
13
I don't 'spect we could of done that way
iffen
we hadn't of had Indian masters.
14
Jest de same he never mind
iffen
we go to de dances and de singing and sech.
15
Mistress never whip us and
iffen
master would start, mistress would git a gun and make him stop.
16
He was asked
iffen
Mitchell could.
iffen
free iffen
iff a slave