{"id":1075,"date":"2018-12-04T19:35:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T19:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1075"},"modified":"2023-05-24T12:26:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:26:37","slug":"mister-johnson-turn-me-loose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/mister-johnson-turn-me-loose\/","title":{"rendered":"Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Warning: contains the N-word and other racial stereotypes. Original presented as an important part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1896 popular song<br>words and music by Ben R. Harney<\/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\/Mister-Johnson-Turn-Me-Loose.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Mister Johnson Turn Me Loose - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-75975a06-ccae-48af-a7b3-231e1e306dbd\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mister-Johnson-Turn-Me-Loose.pdf\">Mister Johnson Turn Me Loose &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mister-Johnson-Turn-Me-Loose.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-75975a06-ccae-48af-a7b3-231e1e306dbd\">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-670ef7a4-8162-4573-aa71-186dda8a1497\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mister-Johnson-Turn-Me-Loose-MIDI.mid\">Mister Johnson Turn Me Loose &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mister-Johnson-Turn-Me-Loose-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-670ef7a4-8162-4573-aa71-186dda8a1497\">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. T&#8217;other eb&#8217;ning eb&#8217;ryting was still, Oh! babe<br>De moon was climbin&#8217; down behind de hill, Oh! babe<br>T&#8217;ought eb&#8217;ry body was a sound a sleep<br>But a old man a Johnson was a on his beat, Oh! babe<br>I went down into a nigger crap game<br>Where de coons were a gambling wid a might and main<br>T&#8217;ought I&#8217;d a be a sport and be dead game<br>I gambled my money and I wasn&#8217;t to blame<br>One nigger&#8217;s point was a little, a Joe<br>Bettin&#8217; six bits t&#8217;a quarter he could make de four<br>He made dat point but he made no more<br>Just den Johnson jumped through de door<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Oh! Mister Johnson turn me loose<br>Got no money but a good excuse<br>Oh! Mister Johnson, I&#8217;ll be good<br>Oh! Mister Johnson turn me loose<br>Don&#8217;t take me to de calaboose<br>Oh! Mister Johnson, I&#8217;ll be good<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. T&#8217;other eb&#8217;ning when the sun was down, Oh! babe<br>I went down old man Johnson&#8217;s chicken farm, Oh! babe<br>Climb&#8217;d in de chicken loft on my knees<br>Was a halfway a through when de chicken sneezed, Oh! babe<br>I&#8217;ll tell you, if you will only keep still<br>&#8216;Bout mile and a half from Louisville<br>I am so nerbous dat I can&#8217;t keep still<br>When I think about it I can feel a big chill<br>A big black coon was a lookin&#8217; fer chickens<br>When a great big bulldog got to rasin&#8217; the dickens<br>De coon got higher, de chicken got nigher<br>Just den Johnson opened up fire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>I got no chance for to be turned loose<br>Got no chance for a good excuse<br>Oh! Mister Johnson, I&#8217;ll be good<br>And now he&#8217;s playin&#8217; seben eleben<br>Way up yonder in de nigger heab&#8217;n<br>Oh! Mister Johnson made him good<\/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\/Mister-Johnson-Turn-Me-Loose.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Warning: contains the N-word and other racial stereotypes. Original presented as an important part of music history.] a 1896 popular songwords and music by Ben R. Harney The sheet music: Accompaniment: Lyrics 1. T&#8217;other eb&#8217;ning eb&#8217;ryting was still, Oh! babeDe moon was climbin&#8217; down behind de hill, Oh! babeT&#8217;ought eb&#8217;ry body was a sound a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/mister-johnson-turn-me-loose\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose&#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-1075","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-hl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1075","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=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4078,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1075\/revisions\/4078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}