The Aunt Jemima Slide

[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial language. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]

A 1917 popular song.
Words by Hugh McNutt.
Music by Karl Johnson.
Song suggested by Jeff Chandler.

The sheet music:

The-Aunt-Jemima-Slide – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

The_Aunt_Jemima_Slide – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Aunt Jemima lives down where the Deacons are strict
    About the way the Holy work goes on
    Ev’ry evening while the picaninnies were sleepin’
    She was prayin’ for a brighter dawn
    But one night when the Parson wasn’t lookin’
    Uncle Mose he taught her that new glide
    Now the congregation’s simply joined in syncopation
    To the time of that entrancing slide

Chorus
Oh that Aunt Jemima slide
How they sway from side to side
Ev’rybody’s goin the Wicki Wacki Wooin’
And the Deacons begin to shout
“Parson must be losing out”
When that saxophone starts to groan
How the darkies do dance and moan
Ain’t no use of talkin’
You got to keep walkin’
When they play the Aunt Jemima slide

  1. Rastus and Diana were the two picaninnies
    Who had wandered far from Dixie Land
    While away they learned to do the One-Step
    And Fox-Trot to the music of Hawaii’s band
    But when they returned to demonstrate the dances
    Darkies on the old plantation cried
    If you want a tune that’s full of old time religion
    Listen to the Aunt Jemima slide

Sung here by Fred Feild: