{"id":1347,"date":"2019-02-21T00:50:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1347"},"modified":"2023-06-03T14:30:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T14:30:55","slug":"turkey-in-the-straw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/turkey-in-the-straw\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey in the Straw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[DISCLAIMER: The original lyrics contain racial language. For this reason, the performance is slightly different and presented here for musical and educational purposes only.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Words by Leo Wood.<br>Music by Otto Bonnell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fiddle tune made into a player piano song. An early version of this perennial tune is Zip Coon (1836). It has been played at square dances and fiddle contests.<\/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\/Turkey-in-the-Straw.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Turkey-in-the-Straw - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d22b3b0a-16d3-4693-8e64-f583c3d85c26\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Turkey-in-the-Straw.pdf\">Turkey-in-the-Straw &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Turkey-in-the-Straw.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d22b3b0a-16d3-4693-8e64-f583c3d85c26\">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 &#8211; player piano roll:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9c0c42b6-3f65-4cad-9bf5-eabce4926753\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/10991S-Turkey-In-The-Straw-1896.mid\">10991S Turkey In The Straw (1896) &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/10991S-Turkey-In-The-Straw-1896.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9c0c42b6-3f65-4cad-9bf5-eabce4926753\">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\">I went down the levee just to pass the time away<br>I heard an old man on a rusty banjo play<br>I asked what the tune was and that man began to roar<br>He said: &#8220;Why, Boss that tune is called The Turkey in the Straw&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Turkey in the straw, turkey in the straw, funniest thing I ever saw<br>Was when I watched that old man play the Turkey in the Straw<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a tune that was chock full of &#8216;pep<br>And your feet started going, while you had to watch your step<br>Oh! I never heard such a quaint melody<br>As when that old man played that old Southern dance for me<br>Just picture him there as he swayed to and fro<br>&#8216;Twould fill you with gladness I know<br>His head a-bobbin&#8217;, his feet keeping time<br>Why he sure made a real tune of that old Dixie rhyme<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I stayed there to watch him just to see what else he&#8217;d do<br>He started dancing many steps I thought quite new<br>I said to him &#8220;Uncle, I&#8217;ve not seen that dance before&#8221;<br>He laughed and said, &#8220;That too is called the Turkey in the Straw&#8221;<\/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\/Turkey-in-the-Straw.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[DISCLAIMER: The original lyrics contain racial language. For this reason, the performance is slightly different and presented here for musical and educational purposes only.] Words by Leo Wood.Music by Otto Bonnell. A fiddle tune made into a player piano song. An early version of this perennial tune is Zip Coon (1836). It has been played &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/turkey-in-the-straw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turkey in the Straw&#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-1347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-lJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1347","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=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1347\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}