{"id":1186,"date":"2018-12-19T21:57:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1186"},"modified":"2023-05-27T13:54:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:54:07","slug":"no-coon-can-come-too-black-for-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/no-coon-can-come-too-black-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"No Coon Can Come Too Black For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Warning: contains racial stereotypes. Original presented as part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1898 popular song<br>words and music by Bert Williams and Walter Smart<\/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:&nbsp; <\/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\/No-Coon-Can-Come-Too-Black-For-Me.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of No Coon Can Come Too Black For Me - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-28bcffad-e5b0-4282-9bf8-b8c3ed7c67a9\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/No-Coon-Can-Come-Too-Black-For-Me.pdf\">No Coon Can Come Too Black For Me &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/No-Coon-Can-Come-Too-Black-For-Me.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-28bcffad-e5b0-4282-9bf8-b8c3ed7c67a9\">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-9d3f2827-803b-413c-a543-11d35e26f9e2\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/No-Coon-Can-Come-Too-Black-For-Me-MIDI.mid\">No Coon Can Come Too Black For Me &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/No-Coon-Can-Come-Too-Black-For-Me-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9d3f2827-803b-413c-a543-11d35e26f9e2\">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. I&#8217;ve had more trouble in the last three years<br>Than any colored person could use<br>I fell in love with two real coons<br>And I didn&#8217;t know which to choose<br>One of them was a pretty yaller man<br>And he certainly looked good to me<br>The other was a rale headed ankle-faced freak<br>And was as black as he could be<br>The yaller man I thought was the best<br>But I know now he can&#8217;t stand the test<br>&#8216;Cause this black man he has commenced<br>To pay all my expense<br>This yaller coon will have to leave here soon<br>&#8216;Cause I&#8217;m going to give him the shove<br>For a friend in need is a friend indeed<br>So this black man I&#8217;m going to love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>No coon can come too black for me<br>I cert&#8217;ny love those dark men&#8217;s &#8216;ciety<br>The blacker they come the better I like &#8217;em<br>All them yaller babies, I&#8217;m bound to slight &#8217;em<br>&#8216;Cause no coon can come too black for me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. This black man I love with all my heart<br>And he&#8217;s always on my mind<br>This yaller coon he got dead sore<br>When I told him he wasn&#8217;t my kind<br>He swears he&#8217;ll get revenge some day<br>If I refuse to be his wife<br>And if that coon don&#8217;t compromise<br>We&#8217;re going to take his life<br>At half past nine the other night<br>These two real coons commenced to fight<br>They fought all night till broad daylight<br>Them coons they looked a sight<br>This yaller coon got loose<br>Histed up the flag of truce<br>And he cried, &#8220;Please let me be&#8221;<br>He says, &#8220;I&#8217;m through, that coon belongs to you<br>That black man&#8217;s too warm for me&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\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\/No-Coon-Can-Come-Too-Black-For-Me.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Warning: contains racial stereotypes. Original presented as part of music history.] a 1898 popular songwords and music by Bert Williams and Walter Smart The sheet music:&nbsp; Accompaniment: Lyrics 1. I&#8217;ve had more trouble in the last three yearsThan any colored person could useI fell in love with two real coonsAnd I didn&#8217;t know which to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/no-coon-can-come-too-black-for-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Coon Can Come Too Black For Me&#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-1186","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-j8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1186","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=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1186\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}