{"id":1411,"date":"2019-02-21T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1411"},"modified":"2023-06-08T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:46:09","slug":"zip-coon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/zip-coon\/","title":{"rendered":"Zip Coon"},"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\">The 1834 origin of Turkey in the Straw<br>words and music by either George Washington Dixon, George Nichols, or Bob Farrell<\/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\/Zip-Coon.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Zip-Coon - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9bc5f366-0440-4b15-8f2d-c6a03bd68d9b\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Zip-Coon.pdf\">Zip-Coon &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Zip-Coon.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9bc5f366-0440-4b15-8f2d-c6a03bd68d9b\">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 Benjamin R. Tubb:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Zip-Coon.mid\">Zip Coon &#8211; MIDI<\/a><\/p>\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>O ole Zip Coon he is a larned skolar (3x)<br>Sings posum up a gum tree an coony in a holler<br>Posum up a gum tree, coony on a stump (3x)<br>Den over dubble trubble, Zip coon will jump<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>O Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day<br>O Zip a duden duden duden duden duden day<br>O Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day<br>Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li>O it&#8217;s old Suky blue skin, she is in lub wid me<br>I went the udder arter noon to take a dish ob tea<br>What do you tink now, Suky hab for supper<br>Why chicken foot an posum heel<br>Widout any butter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did you eber see the wild goose<br>Sailing on de ocean<br>O de wild goose motion is a berry pretty notion<br>Ebry time de wild goose, beckens to de swaller<br>You hear him google google google google gollar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I went down to Sandy Hollar t&#8217; other arternoon<br>And the first man I chanced to meet<br>War ole Zip Coon<br>Ole Zip Coon he is a natty scholar<br>For he plays upon de Banjo \u201cCooney in de hollar\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My old Missus she\u2019s mad wid me<br>Kase I would\u2019nt go wid her into Tennessee<br>Massa build him barn and put in de fodder<br>Twas dis ting and dat ting one ting or odder<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I pose you heard ob de battle New Orleans<br>Whar ole Gineral Jackson gib de British beans<br>Dare de Yankee boys do de job so slick<br>For dey cotch old Packenham<br>An rowed him up de creek.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I hab many tings to tork about<br>But don&#8217;t know wich come first<br>So here de toast to old Zip Coon<br>Before he gin to rust<br>May he hab de pretty girls<br>Like de King ob ole<br>To sing dis song so many times<br>\u2019Fore he turn to mole<\/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\/XGMqyy-InEQ?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.] The 1834 origin of Turkey in the Strawwords and music by either George Washington Dixon, George Nichols, or Bob Farrell The sheet music: Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb: Zip Coon &#8211; MIDI Lyrics ChorusO Zip a duden duden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/zip-coon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zip Coon&#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-1411","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-mL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1411","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=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1411\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}