massah


	THANK YA, MASSAH THANK YA, THANK YA, THANK YA
	We's so happy you take care of us. Let us live on yaw land, work in da fields, and raise yaw crops. Most everbody on da plantation got a job. And we's so grateful. We knows you don't have to give us nuttin. We knows you could jus keep it all. We's so glad, so appreaciating, that you gone and let us have half da extra crop in da silo. We gone to go right out and work harder, make things better, do maw for you. Yawsa, yawsa, thank you massah, thank you. Gawd bless you, massah. Bless you. We knows you got troubles, what with da stock 'n all. We knows it aint easy keepen a roof over our heads, educatin our chillun, an making da sun shine. We knows thar's them what wanna take it all away from us, grab our toilets, and treat us like dirt. We knows ya protecten us from dem, and we knows how hard it is to do dat. If sometimes the younguns don't seem to preciate all dat you do, please don't take it out on dem, day aint learnt the ways of da world yet. They's still a-learnin. Pay no tension to them what thinks they shoulda got all the extra crop you got. We knows what a hard decision it was for you to give us dis break. We knows you had to meet wi'da tire family, even on da holiday, and some of dem didn't wanna give us nuttin. We's so glad you won out. We's so happy to get anything back. Thank you, massah.