{"id":1095,"date":"2018-12-04T19:50:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T19:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1095"},"modified":"2023-05-24T12:55:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:55:21","slug":"my-gal-is-a-high-born-lady","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/my-gal-is-a-high-born-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"My Gal Is a High Born Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Warning: contains the N-word. No hatred is intended. This song is presented in its original form as a part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1896 popular song<br>words and music by Barney Fagan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the sheet music cover: &#8220;The new coon hit. A swell colored affair in verse and song.&#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;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\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\/My-Gal-Is-a-High-Born-Lady.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of My Gal Is a High Born Lady - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d58ce2df-f1e9-480f-973d-a2b660510474\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/My-Gal-Is-a-High-Born-Lady.pdf\">My Gal Is a High Born Lady &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/My-Gal-Is-a-High-Born-Lady.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d58ce2df-f1e9-480f-973d-a2b660510474\">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;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/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-c9a79193-0bf0-4517-a6a6-51ee8b515485\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/My-Gal-Is-a-High-Born-Lady-MIDI.mid\">My Gal Is a High Born Lady &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/My-Gal-Is-a-High-Born-Lady-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-c9a79193-0bf0-4517-a6a6-51ee8b515485\">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;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Thar&#8217; is gwine to be a festival this evenin&#8217;<br>And a gatherin&#8217; of color mighty rare<br>Thar&#8217;ll be noted individuals<br>Of prominent distinctiveness<br>To permeate the colored atmosphere<br>Sunny Africa&#8217;s Four Hundred&#8217;s gwine to be thar<br>To do honor to my lovely fiancee<br>Thar&#8217; will be a grand ovation<br>Of especial ostentation<br>When the parson gives the dusky bride away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>My gal is a highborn lady<br>She&#8217;s black, but none too shady<br>Feather&#8217;d like a peacock, just as gay<br>She is not colored, she was born that way<br>I&#8217;m proud of my black Venus<br>No coon can come between us<br>&#8216;Long the line they can&#8217;t outshine<br>This high born gal of mine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. When the preacher man<br>Propounds the vital question<br>&#8220;Does ye&#8217; take that gal for better or for wuss?&#8221;<br>I will feel as if my soul<br>Had left my body, gone to glory<br>And I know my heart will make an awful fuss<br>I anticipates a very funny feelin&#8217;<br>Nigger&#8217;s eyefall, like a diamond sure to shine<br>But I&#8217;ll bask in honeyed clover<br>When the ceremony&#8217;s over<br>And I press the ruby lips of baby mine<\/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\/My-Gal-Is-a-High-Born-Lady.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Warning: contains the N-word. No hatred is intended. This song is presented in its original form as a part of music history.] a 1896 popular songwords and music by Barney Fagan From the sheet music cover: &#8220;The new coon hit. A swell colored affair in verse and song.&#8221; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; The sheet music: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Accompaniment: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/my-gal-is-a-high-born-lady\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Gal Is a High Born Lady&#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-1095","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-hF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1095","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=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4084,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1095\/revisions\/4084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}