{"id":1317,"date":"2019-02-20T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1317"},"modified":"2023-06-01T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T20:30:07","slug":"shes-getting-more-like-the-white-folks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/shes-getting-more-like-the-white-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"She&#8217;s Getting More Like the White Folks"},"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\">A man is concerned about his sweetheart, 1901<br>words and music by Bert Williams &amp; George Walker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Written by two black songwriters for their comedy shows. This kind of genteel caricature was a protest against the violent songs like The Bully Song (1896). It helped to elevate African-American music leading up to the acceptance of jazz. The word I mispronounced should sound like &#8220;apparently&#8221;.<\/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\/2023\/06\/Shes-Getting-More-Like-the-White-Folks.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Shes-Getting-More-Like-the-White-Folks - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-dd049c12-288a-412c-aea9-a6d75c2ed761\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Shes-Getting-More-Like-the-White-Folks.pdf\">Shes-Getting-More-Like-the-White-Folks &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Shes-Getting-More-Like-the-White-Folks.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-dd049c12-288a-412c-aea9-a6d75c2ed761\">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<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I ain&#8217;t never seen such a monstrous change<br>Since the day that I was born<br>As bounced up here in the las&#8217; four weeks<br>&#8216;Tween me an&#8217; Miss Sally Horn<br>She par&#8217;ntly had a normal Constitution<br>With good common sense to spare<br>But since she&#8217;s been following the white folks<br>They&#8217;ve put Miss Sally in the air<br>My troubles they just started<br>Since at the big hotel she&#8217;s stayed<br>A lady sent for her up there<br>To come and be the maid<br>Where we used to go to the restaurant<br>Plain pork chops they would do<br>But now she wants a porter house steak<br>With a bottle of champagne, too<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>She&#8217;s getting mo&#8217; like the white folks every day<br>Tryin&#8217; to do jus&#8217; like &#8217;em every way<br>Once she was stuck on calico patterns<br>Now all she wants is silks and satins<br>She&#8217;s getting mo&#8217; like the white folks every day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li>I knew at her home that she only had<br>Just one plain kind of meat<br>Now she&#8217;s got to have two diff&#8217;rent kinds<br>Or else she cannot eat<br>I know when chicken was a luxury<br>She&#8217;d eat &#8217;em boiled or fried<br>Now she must have some humming birds hearts<br>Or else she ain&#8217;t satisfied<br>She&#8217;s got herself some irons<br>She&#8217;s been working on her hair<br>She&#8217;s got herself some kalsomine<br>To help to make her fair<br>Now she can sing &#8220;The Swanee River&#8221;<br>Like it never was sung before<br>But since she&#8217;s worked in that hotel<br>She warbles &#8220;Il Trovatore&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\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\/r5gPdvnQ_6I?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.] A man is concerned about his sweetheart, 1901words and music by Bert Williams &amp; George Walker Written by two black songwriters for their comedy shows. This kind of genteel caricature was a protest against the violent songs like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/shes-getting-more-like-the-white-folks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;She&#8217;s Getting More Like the White Folks&#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-1317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-lf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317","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=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4222,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317\/revisions\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}