{"id":1047,"date":"2018-12-03T21:30:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1047"},"modified":"2023-05-23T13:17:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:17:39","slug":"mammys-little-sugar-plum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/mammys-little-sugar-plum\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammy&#8217;s Little Sugar Plum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Warning: contains racial stereotypes. Original presented as part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1920 popular song<br>words by Ernie Erdman<br>music by Benny Davis<\/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:<\/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\/Mammys-Little-Sugar-Plum.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Mammy&apos;s Little Sugar Plum - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-e29bb9c2-bd57-4a1b-a196-171a0947bffb\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mammys-Little-Sugar-Plum.pdf\">Mammy&#8217;s Little Sugar Plum &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mammys-Little-Sugar-Plum.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-e29bb9c2-bd57-4a1b-a196-171a0947bffb\">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-8eb3ee62-904a-4fb2-9eed-3a73cf550aea\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mammys-Little-Sugar-Plum-MIDI.mid\">Mammy&#8217;s Little Sugar Plum &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mammys-Little-Sugar-Plum-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-8eb3ee62-904a-4fb2-9eed-3a73cf550aea\">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. Shades of night are fallin&#8217;<br>Pickaninny&#8217;s callin&#8217;<br>Callin&#8217; for his mammy soft and low<br>Mammy knows the reason<br>White folks have been teasin&#8217;<br>Pickaninny&#8217;s heart is hurtin&#8217; so<br>Little pickaninny starts to cry<br>Mammy soothes him with this lullaby<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Mammy&#8217;s little Sugar Plum<br>Mammy&#8217;s little yum yum yum<br>Dry your chalky eyes it&#8217;s time to go to rest<br>Lay your little kinky head on mammy&#8217;s breast<br>Don&#8217;tcha mind what white folks say<br>They&#8217;ll be sorry some sweet day<br>And tho&#8217; you may be black just like a crow<br>I couldn&#8217;t love you more if you were white as snow<br>So, go to sleep my Sugar Plum<br>You&#8217;re mammy&#8217;s little only one<br>Lord love yer, mammy&#8217;s little Sugar Plum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. When the day is dawnin&#8217;<br>Early in the mornin&#8217;<br>Pickaninny starts right in to play<br>White kids won&#8217;t be near him<br>Nothin&#8217; seems to cheer him<br>All he does is cry the livelong day<br>Soon his dear old mammy leaves a sigh<br>And again she sings this lullaby<\/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-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RxT61faDIr0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Warning: contains racial stereotypes. Original presented as part of music history.] a 1920 popular songwords by Ernie Erdmanmusic by Benny Davis The sheet music: Accompaniment: Lyrics 1. Shades of night are fallin&#8217;Pickaninny&#8217;s callin&#8217;Callin&#8217; for his mammy soft and lowMammy knows the reasonWhite folks have been teasin&#8217;Pickaninny&#8217;s heart is hurtin&#8217; soLittle pickaninny starts to cryMammy soothes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/mammys-little-sugar-plum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mammy&#8217;s Little Sugar Plum&#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-1047","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-gT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1047","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=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1047\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}