{"id":1371,"date":"2019-02-21T19:55:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1371"},"modified":"2023-06-04T13:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T13:36:05","slug":"way-down-in-ca-i-ro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/way-down-in-ca-i-ro\/","title":{"rendered":"Way Down in Ca-i-ro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Warning: This song contains the N-word. It is presented in its original form as a part of musical history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 1850 minstrel song set in Illinois.<br>Words and music by Stephen C. Foster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the Stephen Foster Song Book: &#8220;Way Down in Ca-i-ro,&#8221; the other song of April 1850, is the composer strutting on the minstrel stage. It has a tonic effect: he is bright, clever, amusing, untroubled. He is the composer of &#8220;Oh! Susanna&#8221; and Camptown Races&#8221; in fine form. The song is instructive as well as entertaining; it indicates the correct regional pronunciation of Cairo (rhymes with pharaoh), Illinois, as opposed to Cairo, Egypt.&#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\/2022\/05\/Way-Down-in-Ca-i-ro-SHEET-MUSIC.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Way Down in Ca-i-ro - SHEET MUSIC.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-58181993-a563-4e2f-bc69-f8356d257430\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Way-Down-in-Ca-i-ro-SHEET-MUSIC.pdf\">Way Down in Ca-i-ro &#8211; SHEET MUSIC<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Way-Down-in-Ca-i-ro-SHEET-MUSIC.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-58181993-a563-4e2f-bc69-f8356d257430\">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 Werner Tomaschewski:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-aecacebf-2077-4ab2-9800-a1b0ef8011af\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Way-Down-In-Ca-i-ro.mid\">Way Down In Ca-i-ro &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Way-Down-In-Ca-i-ro.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-aecacebf-2077-4ab2-9800-a1b0ef8011af\">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. Oh! ladies don\u2019t you blush<br>When I come out to play<br>I only mean to please you all<br>And den I\u2019s guine away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>I hear my true-lub weep<br>I hear my true-lub sigh<br>\u2019Way down in Ca-i-ro<br>Dis nigga\u2019s guine to die<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Sometimes de nigga\u2019s life is sad<br>Sometimes his life is gay<br>When de work don\u2019t come too hard<br>He\u2019s singin all de day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Now we libs on de fat ob de land<br>Now we libs on de lean<br>When we hab no cake to bake<br>We sweep de kitchen clean<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Massa bought a bran new coat<br>And hung it on de wall<br>Dis nigga\u2019s guine to take dat coat<br>And wear it to de ball<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. All de ladies in de land<br>And all de gemmen too<br>Am guine to hear de darkey band<br>An see what dey can do<\/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\/Way-Down-In-Cairo.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Warning: This song contains the N-word. It is presented in its original form as a part of musical history.] A 1850 minstrel song set in Illinois.Words and music by Stephen C. Foster. From the Stephen Foster Song Book: &#8220;Way Down in Ca-i-ro,&#8221; the other song of April 1850, is the composer strutting on the minstrel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/way-down-in-ca-i-ro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Way Down in Ca-i-ro&#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-1371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-m7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371","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=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4265,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions\/4265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}