Ge-Lang! Git Up! [from the New Orleans Delta]

"Ge-Lang! Git Up! [from the New Orleans Delta]." New-York Saturday Press, July 14, 1860, 4.

Type

newspaper

Genre

poetry

Abstract

Poem about a cart driver who only berates his mules to go but never stops to pick anyone up. Even in his sleep he says the words "Ge-Lang! Git Up!"