Calling All Sugar Lumps

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OK I know this one requires some explaining. Well back in high school one of my very best girlfriends and I found a silly rhyme that always got us giggling. The rhyme was “Sure as the grass grows round the stump, you are my darling sugar lump”. To this day I had no idea where this rhyme came from but I knew it helped us a lot. Through all kinds of heartaches, dreams of teen idols, and sighs over boys at school if we felt down all one of us had to do was to say this rhyme and we would have a fit of giggles. Then today I was exploring this idea online and discovered that that line came from Songs and Rhymes from Historical African American and here is the poem I found online: Nursery Rhyme (Historical Black American English) Rose's red, vi'lets blue. Sugar is sweet but not lak you. De vi'lets fade, de roses fall; But you gits sweeter, all in all. As shore as de grass grows 'round de stump, You is my darlin' Sugar Lump. W'en de sun don't shine de day is cold, But my love fer you do not git old. De ocean's deep, de sky is blue; Sugar is sweet, an' so is you; De ocean waves an' de sky gits pale, But my love are true, an' it never fail.