{"id":1170,"date":"2018-12-19T21:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1170"},"modified":"2023-05-27T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:27:09","slug":"navajo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/navajo\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Disclaimer: the racially charged words and topics in this song are from another time period. These are not approved of by Sheet Music Singer. They are presented as part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1903 popular song<br>words by Harry Williams<br>music by Egbert Van Alstyne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This strange ballad invokes stereotypes of both Native Americans and African-Americans. The sound of this arrangement has a some resemblance to real native music. It was also published as an instrumental.<\/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<\/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\/Navajo.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Navajo - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-7ebc3421-205a-4b4b-8e49-55898aef7288\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Navajo.pdf\">Navajo &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Navajo.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-7ebc3421-205a-4b4b-8e49-55898aef7288\">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-e2e30958-855f-4d1b-ac2f-87f20ee910c5\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Navajo-MIDI.mid\">Navajo &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Navajo-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-e2e30958-855f-4d1b-ac2f-87f20ee910c5\">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. Down on the sand hills of New Mexico<br>There lives an Indian maid<br>She&#8217;s of the tribe they call the Navajo<br>Face of a copper shade<br>And ev&#8217;ry evening there was a coon<br>Who came his love to plead<br>There by the silv&#8217;ry light of the moon<br>He&#8217;d help her string her beads<br>And when they were all alone<br>To her he would softly crone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Nava, Nava, my Navajo<br>I have a love for you that will grow<br>If you&#8217;ll have a coon for a beau<br>I&#8217;ll have a Navajo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. This Indian maiden told the colored man<br>She wanted lots to wear<br>Laces and blankets and a powder can<br>Jewels and pipestone rare<br>You bring me feathers dear from the store<br>He answered have no fear<br>I&#8217;ll bring you feathers babe by the score<br>If there are chickens near<br>With joy then the maiden sighed<br>When to her once more he cried<\/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\/Navajo.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Disclaimer: the racially charged words and topics in this song are from another time period. These are not approved of by Sheet Music Singer. They are presented as part of music history.] a 1903 popular songwords by Harry Williamsmusic by Egbert Van Alstyne This strange ballad invokes stereotypes of both Native Americans and African-Americans. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/navajo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Navajo&#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-1170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-iS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1170","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=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4102,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1170\/revisions\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}