{"id":1031,"date":"2018-12-03T21:20:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1031"},"modified":"2023-05-23T11:31:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:31:54","slug":"ma-tiger-lily","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/ma-tiger-lily\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma Tiger Lily"},"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 1900 popular song<br>words by Clay M. Greene<br>music by A.B. Sloane<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Songs like this with its racial language were very much the fad in 1900. This one premiered in the musical comedy Aunt Hannah, which was produced at the Bijou Theatre in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheet music:\u00a0\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\/Ma-Tiger-Lily.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Ma Tiger Lily - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-642feb54-00d5-4bd5-b8cc-5a245230ccc6\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ma-Tiger-Lily.pdf\">Ma Tiger Lily &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ma-Tiger-Lily.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-642feb54-00d5-4bd5-b8cc-5a245230ccc6\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\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-df45497b-67b8-4f80-941f-a443179abfa2\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ma-Tiger-Lily-MIDI.mid\">Ma Tiger Lily &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ma-Tiger-Lily-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-df45497b-67b8-4f80-941f-a443179abfa2\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. I&#8217;d frow down any coon fur her<br>She frowed down piles for me<br>No matter when er where, she&#8217;ll ketch &#8217;em by de pair<br>She&#8217;s wicked as kin be<br>But she ain&#8217;t never caused no sigh<br>To dis yere yaller coon<br>You hear me all I&#8217;m proud to leave her in a crowd<br>And see dem crazy niggers spoon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Refrain<br>Fur she&#8217;s ma Lily, my Tiger Lily<br>She draws de niggers like a crowd of flies<br>A Queen in shape and size, got diamonds in her eyes<br>She is ma sweetest one, ma Baby Tiger Lily<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. I met her at a ball one night<br>And gave her jest one smile<br>She shook her nigger pard and handed me her card<br>I wrote ma name in style<br>She wouldn&#8217;t waltz no coon but me<br>I took de last quadrille<br>And when de ball was froo, de furst thing dat I knew<br>She swoa ma little bride to be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#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\/05\/Ma-Tiger-Lily.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 1900 popular songwords by Clay M. Greenemusic by A.B. Sloane Songs like this with its racial language were very much the fad in 1900. This one premiered in the musical comedy Aunt Hannah, which was produced at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/ma-tiger-lily\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ma Tiger Lily&#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":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1031","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-gD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1031","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=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1031\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}