[WARNING: contains the N-word. Original presented as an important part of music history.]
music of the Original Christy Minstrels, 1848
published by C. Holt Jr., New York
The sheet music:
The top line of page two in the LOC scan is missing.
Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:
Lyrics
1. Dey may talk ob dandy Niggers
But dey neber see dis coon
A prombernarding Broadway
On a Sunday arternoon
Ise de sole delight ob yellow gals
De envy ob de men
Obsarve dis child when …
(missing line)
Chorus
For Ise de grit de go de cheese
As ebry one may tell
De dark fair sex Ise sure to please
Ise de Dandy Broadway swell
2. My new sack coat am padded
Just to make my shoulders broad
You’d tink I was jewpeter
You would upon my word
I sometime wear musashers
But I loss em toder day
For de glue was bad de wind was high
And so dey blow’d away
3. I sports a double eye glass,
Dat shuts up in a case,
A brack silk stock ac cause it suits,
De spressione ob dis face.
My linen cuffs an collar too
Look brutfully white,
And so by gosh I tink dey ought,
For I wash em ebry night.
4. I wears a gold wash’d guard chain,
Dat I bought ob Uncle Pete,
But I left de watch for safety,
Wid a man in Chatham street.
Wid grobes, an cane, an fancy vest,
French trowserloons an hat,
Wid gran imperial which I cut,
From de tail ob our brack Cat.
5. I radder tink Miss Chloe White,
Am growing quite forlorn,
I hears it in her dulcet woice,
As she sweetly cries “Hot Corn.”
She’s up to de eyes in lub wid me,
An so am twenty more,
For Ise sitch a gay deceiver,
As dey neber seed before.
6. Dis Niggers name am Cesar,
Mars Napoleon Sinclair Brown,
De biggest bug de greatest coon,
Dat eber walk’d dis town.
So take car Gals an mind your sefs;
For if I roll dis eye,
Youll gib a shake, a sigh an groan,
An den flop down an die
Sung here by Fred Feild: