{"id":1059,"date":"2018-12-03T21:37:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1059"},"modified":"2023-05-23T13:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:37:15","slug":"massas-in-de-cold-ground","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/massas-in-de-cold-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa&#8217;s in de Cold Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: contains racial stereotypes. No hatred is intended. It is presented in its original form as a part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1852 popular song<br>words and music by Stephen C. Foster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Foster&#8217;s most popular songs in his lifetime. This melancholy but beautiful song has many variations in instrumental sheet music and player piano rolls. Similar in many ways to Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) it is a slow elegiac song in dialect written for the minstrel stage. Of course, the reality in slavery was that most slaves merely tolerated their masters out of necessity but desperately desired their freedom. It is ironic that we are to feel sorry for the slave master instead of the slave who was in a much more precarious position.<\/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\/Massas-in-de-Cold-Ground.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Massa&apos;s in de Cold Ground - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-18ffae0e-4c3e-403a-9387-4a4c28a8f8cf\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Massas-in-de-Cold-Ground.pdf\">Massa&#8217;s in de Cold Ground &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Massas-in-de-Cold-Ground.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-18ffae0e-4c3e-403a-9387-4a4c28a8f8cf\">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 by Werner Tomaschewski:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-044163c5-2a14-4f92-8e2a-ac693d9e367c\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Massas-in-de-Cold-Ground-MIDI.mid\">Massa&#8217;s in de Cold Ground &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Massas-in-de-Cold-Ground-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-044163c5-2a14-4f92-8e2a-ac693d9e367c\">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. Round de meadows am a ringing<br>De darkeys\u2019 mournful song<br>While de mocking-bird am singing<br>Happy as de day am long<br>Where de ivy am a-creeping<br>O\u2019er de grassy mound<br>Dare old massa am a-sleeping<br>Sleeping in de cold, cold ground<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Down in de cornfield<br>Hear dat mournful sound<br>All de darkeys am a-weeping<br>Massa\u2019s in de cold, cold ground<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. When de autumn leaves were falling<br>When de days were cold<br>\u2019Twas hard to hear old massa calling<br>Cayse he was so weak and old<br>Now de orange tree am blooming<br>On de sandy shore<br>Now de summer days am coming<br>Massa nebber calls no more<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Massa made de darkeys love him<br>Cayse he was so kind<br>Now dey sadly weep above him<br>Mourning cayse he leave dem behind<br>I cannot work before tomorrow<br>Cayse de tear drops flow<br>I try to drive away my sorrow<br>Pickin&#8217; on de old banjo<\/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\/05\/Massas-in-de-Cold-Ground.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: contains racial stereotypes. No hatred is intended. It is presented in its original form as a part of music history.] a 1852 popular songwords and music by Stephen C. Foster One of Foster&#8217;s most popular songs in his lifetime. This melancholy but beautiful song has many variations in instrumental sheet music and player piano &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/massas-in-de-cold-ground\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Massa&#8217;s in de Cold Ground&#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-1059","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-h5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059","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=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}