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Their Eyes Were Watching God dap 157handling Big John de Conquer and his works. How he had doneeverything big on earth, then went up tuh heben without dyingatall. Went up there picking a guitar and got all de angels doing thering-shout round and round de throne. Then everybody but Godand Old Peter flew off on a flying race to Jericho and back andJohn de Conquer won the race; went on down to hell, beat the olddevil and passed out ice water to everybody down there. Somebodytried to say that it was a mouth organ harp that John wasplaying, but the rest of them would not hear that. Don't care howgood anybody could play a harp, God would rather to hear a guitar.That brought them back to Tea Cake. How come he couldn'thit that box a lick or two? Well, all right now, make us know it.When it got good to everybody, Muck-Boy woke up andbegan to chant with the rhythm and everybody bore down onthe last word of the line:Yo' mama don't wear no DrawsAh seen her when she took 'em OffShe soaked 'em in alcoHolShe sold 'em tuh de Santy ClausHe told her 'twas aginst de LawTo wear dem dirty DrawsThen Muck-Boy went crazy through the feet and dancedhimself and everybody else crazy. When he finished he sat backdown on the floor and went to sleep again. Then they got toplaying Florida flip and coon-can. Then it was dice. Not formoney. This was a show-off game. Everybody posing his fancyshots. As always it broiled down to Tea Cake and Motor Boat.Tea Cake with his shy grin and Motor Boat with his face like a littleblack cherubim just from a church tower doing amazingthings with anybody's dice. The others forgot the work and the