{"id":1006,"date":"2018-12-01T18:29:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T18:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1006"},"modified":"2023-05-22T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T12:43:42","slug":"kingdom-coming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/kingdom-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a great old 1862 minstrel song that marches right along<br>words and music by Henry Clay Work<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the book Popular Songs of Nineteenth Century America: &#8220;The events pictured in the song, casually referred to by Root as &#8220;comical situations,&#8221; are grim and bitterly satiric. Work was not unacquainted with the realities of slave life: his abolitionist father was an active participant in helping runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad and their home in Illinois was a &#8220;station&#8221;; the father served a jail sentence for his activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheet music:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Kingdom-Coming.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Kingdom Coming - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-e5a17619-6bcf-426f-9001-cd92c486e108\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Kingdom-Coming.pdf\">Kingdom Coming &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Kingdom-Coming.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-e5a17619-6bcf-426f-9001-cd92c486e108\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accompaniment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1bee7b4e-b9c1-4bdd-82ba-6a3adcc6dd51\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Kingdom-Coming-MIDI.mid\">Kingdom Coming &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Kingdom-Coming-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1bee7b4e-b9c1-4bdd-82ba-6a3adcc6dd51\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Say, darkeys, hab hab you seen de massa<br>Wid de muffstash on his face<br>Go long de road some time dis mornin\u2019<br>Like he gwine to leab de place?<br>He seen a smoke, way up de ribber<br>Whar de Lincum gumboats lay<br>He took his hat, an\u2019 he lef berry sudden<br>An\u2019 I spec he&#8217;s run away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>De massa run? ha, ha!<br>De darkey stay? ho, ho!<br>It mus\u2019 be now de kingdom comin\u2019<br>An\u2019 de year ob Jubilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Ho six foot one way, two foot tudder<br>An\u2019 he weigh tree hundred pound<br>His coat so big, he couldn\u2019t pay de tailor<br>An\u2019 it won\u2019t go half way round<br>He drill so much dey call him Cap\u2019an<br>An\u00b4 he get so drefful tann\u2019d<br>I spec he try an\u2019 fool dem Yankees<br>For to tink he\u2019s contraband<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. De darkeys feel so lonesome libbing<br>In de log house on de lawn<br>Dey move dar tings to massa\u2019s parlor<br>For to keep it while he\u2019s gone<br>Dar\u2019s wine an\u2019 cider in de kitchen<br>An\u2019 the darkeys, dey\u2019ll hab some<br>I spose dey\u2019ll all be cornfiscated<br>When de Linkum sojers come<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. De oberseer he makes us trouble<br>An\u2019 he dribe us round a spell<br>We lock him up in de smokehouse cellar<br>Wid de key trown in de well<br>De whip is lost, his han\u2019cuff broken<br>But de master\u2019ll hab his pay<br>He\u2019s ole enough, big enough, ought to known better<br>Dan to went an\u2019 run away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sung here by Fred Feild:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Kingdom-Coming.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] a great old 1862 minstrel song that marches right alongwords and music by Henry Clay Work From the book Popular Songs of Nineteenth Century America: &#8220;The events pictured in the song, casually referred to by Root as &#8220;comical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/kingdom-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kingdom Coming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1006","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-ge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4054,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1006\/revisions\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}