{"id":1162,"date":"2018-12-19T21:25:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1162"},"modified":"2023-05-26T19:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:08:05","slug":"my-ole-man","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/my-ole-man\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ole Man"},"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\">From the 1909 musical &#8220;Mr. Load of Koal&#8221;<br>words by Alex Rogers<br>music by Bert A. Williams<\/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\/My-Ole-Man.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of My Ole Man - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-7d443ddd-5f00-4ad5-9d36-e82f126281b7\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/My-Ole-Man.pdf\">My Ole Man &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/My-Ole-Man.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-7d443ddd-5f00-4ad5-9d36-e82f126281b7\">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-f6941863-7d9e-4233-9f7c-acc22bde6784\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/My-Ole-Man-MIDI.mid\">My Ole Man &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/My-Ole-Man-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f6941863-7d9e-4233-9f7c-acc22bde6784\">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. Now what I&#8217;m goin&#8217; to tell to you<br>Are things my ole man said<br>And it makes no diff&#8217;rence what you think<br>Remember Father&#8217;s dead<br>Yes, papa dear could tell some tales<br>And he&#8217;d always begin<br>By saying, &#8220;Son, one touch of nature<br>Makes the whole world kin&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Said I was some kin to the sons of Ham<br>&#8216;Lated to the folks from Bam<br>Mixed up with old Alacazam<br>Daddy to the house of Lam<br>Some kind of kin to Jimson Jams<br>Brother to the King called Dropsand Drams<br>So, all the colored people in any lan&#8217;<br>Must a been some kin to my ole man<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Yes, daddy said he had relations<br>Throughout many lands<br>He said he was a foster brother<br>To ole Bill Kersands<br>He also said, &#8220;To show you, son<br>Just how my record stands<br>My neice&#8217;s brother&#8217;s stepson<br>Was related to Joe Gans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. One time my ole man told to me<br>A tale that sounded great<br>He said his great, great grand-dad was<br>The first great heavy-weight<br>That he fought Jack Johnson&#8217;s grand-dad<br>At three hundred pounds<br>And after a hard battle<br>Won in seven hundred rounds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. He said, &#8220;Son, they were fighting some<br>Those two big strapping bucks<br>They fought three days and nights, son<br>And they fought with their bare knucks&#8221;<br>And from that fight there came a phrase<br>That my ole man just loves<br>That phrase you hear about a man<br>&#8220;being handled without gloves&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Here&#8217;s what my old man told me<br>About my dear Aunt Karo Kate<br>She was chief cook for &#8220;King Five Up&#8221;<br>In some big African state<br>One day King Five Up killed Aunt Kate<br>A story sad but true<br>&#8216;Cause she spilled six quarts of mucilage in<br>King Five Up&#8217;s ostrich stew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6. I recollect one Christmans Eve<br>My old man came home full<br>And swore he was a second cousin<br>To old Sitting Bull<br>Another time they made him mad<br>And up he spoke says he<br>My great grand uncle&#8217;s son-in-law<br>Was kin to Booker T.<\/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\/LMwqptYtfQg?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: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] From the 1909 musical &#8220;Mr. Load of Koal&#8221;words by Alex Rogersmusic by Bert A. Williams The sheet music:\u00a0 \u00a0 Accompaniment: Lyrics 1. Now what I&#8217;m goin&#8217; to tell to youAre things my ole man saidAnd it makes no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/my-ole-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Ole Man&#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-1162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-iK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1162","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=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4099,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1162\/revisions\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}