Johnny Bigfoot
Johnny Bigfoot
Johnny Bigfoot
Nursery Rhyme
Nursery Rhyme
(Historical Black American English)
(English)
Johnny, Johnny Bigfoot!
Want a pair o' shoes?
Go kick two cows out'n deir skins.
Run Brudder, tell de news!
Johnny, Johnny Bigfoot!
Want a pair of shoes?
Go kick two cows out of their skins.
Run Brother, tell the news!
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This rhyme can be found in Negro Folk Rhymes, Wise and Otherwise, with a Study by Thomas W. Talley of Fisk University (1922).
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