{"id":1341,"date":"2019-02-21T00:47:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1341"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T12:35:25","slug":"thats-why-they-call-me-shine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/thats-why-they-call-me-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Why They Call Me Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Warning: Derogatory racial terms. No hatred is intended.<br>This song is presented with its original lyrics as a part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 1910 popular song<br>Words by Cecil Mack and Lew Brown.<br>Music by Ford Dabney.<\/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\/11\/Thats-Why-They-Call-Me-Shine-1910.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Thats-Why-They-Call-Me-Shine - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-7e237328-8c65-4b75-842c-760a97888c01\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Thats-Why-They-Call-Me-Shine-1910.pdf\">Thats-Why-They-Call-Me-Shine &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Thats-Why-They-Call-Me-Shine-1910.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-7e237328-8c65-4b75-842c-760a97888c01\">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 by Denese Coulbeck:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d1d30cfa-81d8-46fc-8511-5eaa3d5d4ce2\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Thats_Why_They_Call_Me_Shine_1910_MIDI_DCoulbeck.mid\">Thats_Why_They_Call_Me_Shine &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Thats_Why_They_Call_Me_Shine_1910_MIDI_DCoulbeck.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d1d30cfa-81d8-46fc-8511-5eaa3d5d4ce2\">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. When I was born they christened me<br>Plain Samuel Johnson Brown<br>But I hadn&#8217;t grown so very big<br>&#8216;Fore some folks in this town<br>Had changed it &#8217;round to &#8220;Sambo&#8221;<br>I was &#8220;Rastus&#8221; to a few<br>Then &#8220;Chocolate Drop&#8221; was added<br>By some others that I knew<br>And then to cap the climax<br>I was strolling down the line<br>When someone shouted, &#8220;Fellas, hey!<br>Come on and pipe the shine!&#8221;<br>But I don&#8217;t care a bit<br>Here&#8217;s how I figure it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>&#8216;Cause my hair is curly<br>&#8216;Cause my teeth are pearly<br>Just because I always wear a smile<br>Like to dress up in the latest style<br>&#8216;Cause I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m living<br>Take troubles smiling, never whine<br>Just because my color&#8217;s shady<br>Slightly different maybe<br>That&#8217;s why they call me Shine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. A rose they say by any other name<br>Would smell as sweet<br>So, if that&#8217;s right why should a nickname<br>Take me off my feet<br>Why everything that&#8217;s precious<br>From a gold piece to a dime<br>And diamonds, pearls, and rubies<br>Ain&#8217;t no good unless they shine<br>So when these clever people<br>Call me shine or coon or smoke<br>I simply smile then smile some more<br>And vote them all a joke<br>I&#8217;m thinking just the same<br>What is there in a name<\/p>\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-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Thats-Why-They-Call-Me-Shine.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Warning: Derogatory racial terms. No hatred is intended.This song is presented with its original lyrics as a part of music history.] A 1910 popular songWords by Cecil Mack and Lew Brown.Music by Ford Dabney. The sheet music: Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck: Lyrics 1. When I was born they christened mePlain Samuel Johnson BrownBut I hadn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/thats-why-they-call-me-shine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That&#8217;s Why They Call Me Shine&#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-1341","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-lD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1341","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=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4493,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1341\/revisions\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}