{"id":1409,"date":"2019-02-21T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1409"},"modified":"2023-06-05T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T12:43:52","slug":"you-cant-fool-all-the-people-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/you-cant-fool-all-the-people-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Fool All the People All the Time"},"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 1903 popular song<br>words and music by Shepard N. Edmonds<\/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\/You-Cant-Fool-All-the-People-All-the-Time.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of You-Cant-Fool-All-the-People-All-the-Time - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9e671f2a-dd8d-4884-8d9e-08e17122365c\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/You-Cant-Fool-All-the-People-All-the-Time.pdf\">You-Cant-Fool-All-the-People-All-the-Time &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/You-Cant-Fool-All-the-People-All-the-Time.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9e671f2a-dd8d-4884-8d9e-08e17122365c\">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>Mose Lincoln Lee, from Tennessee, for his discourse took this text<br>Dat halfway doin&#8217;s, ain&#8217;t no account in a dis world or de next<br>You know a hook dat has no sinkers, just like a ship without a sail<br>And if you notice on every kite, you&#8217;ll find that somewhere hangs a tale<br>If you&#8217;ve a friend whose always had a friend, whose been a &#8216;ticlar friend to you<br>Dont you begin to deceive that friend, because your friends are seldom true<br>Oh! you can fool dis man and fool dat man, cause a fool&#8217;s born every day<br>But a in your foolin&#8217;, don&#8217;t you let your rulin&#8217; turn around the other way<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>For just remember, you can&#8217;t fool all the people, all the time<br>An de man dat said dat, cert&#8217;nly was a friend of mine<br>Just remember when you&#8217;re livin&#8217; in a house of glass<br>That if you start to throwin&#8217; stones, you know your house won&#8217;t last<br>For if you ain&#8217;t got and won&#8217;t git, you can&#8217;t say nothin&#8217;, but Oh! my<br>And remember the maxims the old folks in them good books said<br>&#8220;That a still tongue always make the wisest kind of a head&#8221;<br>For you can fool some de people all de time<br>And you can fool all de people some de time<br>But remember you can&#8217;t fool all de people, all o&#8217; the time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li>Ma name is Poe, I&#8217;m feelin&#8217; po, &#8217;cause I&#8217;ve been po&#8217; all my life<br>And when you&#8217;re po&#8217;, you ought to know, that you have no social strife<br>Oh! but that Eph&#8217;ram Boone, a sharp head Coon, lived a life of perfect ease<br>He never married, he never hurried, but would always tell you these<br>Jus&#8217; do your bus&#8217;ness in a bus&#8217;ness way then you can have bus&#8217;ness to burn<br>Don&#8217;t try in vain, for to change the lane, dat you will find that has no turn<br>Cause you know de wust, is trust and to trust is bust, so to bust don&#8217;t never pay<br>Because when you &#8216;ve trusted, you will soon be busted, then your friends all roun&#8217; will say<\/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\/wgqnzsR6NAE?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 1903 popular songwords and music by Shepard N. 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