This song is most unprogressive. I can just imagine a mammy singing this to the white child she was nursing. It was sung to me as a child. I have just as of late thought about the implications of this song, what it means, and what context it was sung in.

When I was a little baby
I remember long ago
my pappy would sit all the evenin'
and play his old banjo
mammy then would call me honey
place me up upon her knee
and put me to her bosom
and sing this song to me
don' you cry my honey
don' you weep no more
mammy only loves her baby
all the other black trash sittin'on the floor
mammy only loves her boy.