[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]
From “Follies of 1907”, published in 1908
Words and music by Bert Fitzgibbon
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Down in sunny Alabam’
Lives a dandy cullud man
Name is Alabama Sam
Dresses so dandy, he’s all the candy
Every day he walks the street
Just to give the girls a treat
Beau Brummel from head to feet, Alabama Sam
Got the gals all crazy
This darktown dusky daisy
Chorus
Alabama Sam
That handsome cullud man
Every day from head to toes
Different shoes and hand and clothes
Cane and gloves in hand
He looks just simply grand
All the other coons salaam to Alabama Sam
- Down in sunny Alabam’
Watch this coon do just the grand
Other coons all understand
Why he’s the dandy, why he’s the candy
Money, that’s his middle name
In the cullud hall of fame
Pictures in a colored frame, Alabama Sam
Just look, stop and hear them
When he goes by they cheer him