[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]
A popular song from 1914.
Words and music by Dave Reed.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Honey, honey, hurry; put your best clothes on.
Come out and meet me at the old red barn.
I’ve got the mule team hitched up waitin’ you there.
I’m goin’ to take you to a swell affair.
Ev’rybody’s waitin’ there for me and you,
Down at the Mississippi barbecue.
We’ll have the grandest spree
That you ever dared to see
Before that party is through.
Chorus
Oh, honey, hear the people cheer.
Come here; I’m goin’.
We’ll be singin’ and wingin’
Till the hour of dawn,
Ev’ry kind of devil dance that ever was born.
Oh, hear that grand Kentucky band.
Good land! Some blowin’.
Gee, I’m just goin’ dippy
About that Mississippi Barbecue
- Soon you’ll hear the steamboat comin’ down the stream,
Puffin’ and tootin’ with a mighty scream.
She’ll bring the Darktown dandies from Tennessee
Down to Kentucky to the jubilee.
Smell the grand aroma of that cookin’ sweet.
Lordy, I wish that it was time to eat.
I’ll have an awful fight
Controllin’ my appetite.
It runs clean down to my feet