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First Line: Jack, if you got to be a rounder
Last Line: Just don't let mama catch you / makin' rounds at night
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks


Jack, if you got to be a rounder
Be a rounder right--
Just don't let mama catch you
Makin' rounds at night.





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