{"id":136,"date":"2018-06-28T14:52:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T14:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2023-05-10T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T13:37:52","slug":"angelina-baker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/angelina-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial language. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A comic song for the minstrel stage, 1850<br>words, music, and arrangement by Stephen C. Foster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Young Stephen Foster loved the minstrel shows. He was a teenager in the Pittsburg area when they started. He and his friends would ape and clown like they were minstrel actors. That is how he wrote Oh Susanna and many others like this one.<\/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\">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\/2018\/06\/Angelina-Baker.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Angelina Baker - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-c99e4d81-6d15-4f68-9d21-e8293c706efd\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Angelina-Baker.pdf\">Angelina Baker &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Angelina-Baker.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-c99e4d81-6d15-4f68-9d21-e8293c706efd\">Download<\/a><\/div>\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\">Accompaniment:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-bc32f94e-1782-490e-a7ba-4e5688e207ce\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Angelina-Baker.mid\">Angelina Baker &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Angelina-Baker.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-bc32f94e-1782-490e-a7ba-4e5688e207ce\">Download<\/a><\/div>\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\">Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Way down on de old plantation dah\u2019s where I was born<br>I used to beat de whole creation hoein in de corn<br>Oh! den I work and den I sing so happy all de day<br>Till Angelina Baker came and stole my heart away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Angelina Baker! Angelina Baker\u2019s gone<br>She left me here to weep a tear and beat on de old jawbone<br>Angelina Baker! Angelina Baker\u2019s gone<br>She left me here to weep a tear and beat on de old jawbone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. I\u2019ve seen my Angelina in de spring-time and de fall<br>I\u2019ve seen her in de corn-field and I\u2019ve seen her at de ball<br>And ebry time I met her she was smiling like de sun<br>But now I\u2019m left to weep a tear cayse Angelina\u2019s gone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Angelina am so tall she nebber sees de ground<br>She hab to take a wellumscope to look down on de town<br>Angelina likes de boys as far as she can see dem<br>She used to run old Massa round to ax him for to free dem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Early in de morning ob a lubly summer day<br>I ax for Angelina and dey say \u201cshe\u2019s gone away\u201d<br>I don\u2019t know wha to find her cayse I don\u2019t know wha she\u2019s gone<br>She left me here to weep a tear and beat on de old jawbone<\/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-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\/o5GYC9L61A0?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 language. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] A comic song for the minstrel stage, 1850words, music, and arrangement by Stephen C. Foster Young Stephen Foster loved the minstrel shows. He was a teenager in the Pittsburg area when they started. He and his friends would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/angelina-baker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Angelina Baker&#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-136","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-2c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136","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=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}