Micah Hawkins, the Pied Piper of Catherine Slip [ 155 ] comedy and patriotism, the formula was sufficiently successful to be repeated in a still more bizarre song to welcome Lafayette when he arrived on his spectacular tour of the United States in 1824. Although the "Nation's Guest" made several extravagantly ballyhooed visits to both New York theaters, where songs in his honor were sung nightly, there is no indication that he was exposed to either of the two scheduled performances of "Massa Georgee Washington and General La Fayette!'80 Performed by the popular comedian and impersonator James Roberts, gotten up in blackface and the uniform of a Continental soldier, the song was advertised in the Commercial Advertiser on October 4,1824, as an added attraction at the Chatham Garden Theatre, after a performance of Kotzebue's Pizarro. It was repeated on December 4,1824 (there was a confusion about the date in the various newspapers), during the run of The Saw-Mill, in which Roberts was appearing. "Massa Georgee Washington and General La Fayette" is one of the great oddities of the nineteenth-century American song literature, with its all-but-unintelligible, fake-Negro-jargon verses and alternating patter purporting to narrate Lafayette's (and Washington's) heroic exploits during the Revolution. For example: "General La Fayette git a ship out he own pocket, an 'rive from France in Charleton, in ole '76 Year, purpose to 'sist Massa georgee Washington to tell John Bull—'No you wont, dough, nor you shant dough'"; and "Near Jeametown, 1780, dough Lord Cornwallis says, 'de Boy, General la fayette cant 'scape me' . . . ole Lord Cornwallis run arter 'de Boy General la fayette' till he shake all he Corn off he Cob!" The patter follows Massa Georgee Washington to his heavenly abode, whither "He gone to 'gotiate Unkle Sam business where Trumpet trouble not he ear, nor Cannon more a 'sturb he peace" while the surviving General Lafayette is treated to a most outrageous pun: "He laugh-a-yet! Still stay here to look at Unkle Sam [who has been characterized throughout as a young calf cutting his horns] flourishin' Gall [girl] an' Boy: (kneeling) An' oh! long may day hab de Sarrafaxion to shew deir gratitude—fire deir Futterjoy [feu-de-joie] for General la fayette, dareby makin' good many Laugh-a-yet! (sings) 30 Sheet music at The New-York Historical Society; also Collection of Lester S. Levy.