{"id":1779,"date":"2019-06-15T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T17:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1779"},"modified":"2024-04-17T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:36:32","slug":"i-likes-the-place-so-much-i-hates-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/i-likes-the-place-so-much-i-hates-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"I Likes the Place So Much I Hates To Leave"},"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 popular song from 1899<br>Words by W. E. Browning<br>Music by Bernard Franklin<\/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\/2024\/04\/I-Likes-the-Place-So-Much-I-Hates-To-Leave.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of I-Likes-the-Place-So-Much-I-Hates-To-Leave - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-5bb470b8-9c22-4cbb-99d1-bceb1f355488\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/I-Likes-the-Place-So-Much-I-Hates-To-Leave.pdf\">I-Likes-the-Place-So-Much-I-Hates-To-Leave &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/I-Likes-the-Place-So-Much-I-Hates-To-Leave.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-5bb470b8-9c22-4cbb-99d1-bceb1f355488\">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 James Pitt-Payne:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-6742b552-abb2-4f21-84d4-fa26acaf79fa\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/I_Likes_The_Place_So_Much_I_Hates_To_Leave-MIDI.mid\">I_Likes_The_Place_So_Much_I_Hates_To_Leave &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/I_Likes_The_Place_So_Much_I_Hates_To_Leave-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-6742b552-abb2-4f21-84d4-fa26acaf79fa\">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. A colored gent met a yallar gal<br>At a ragtime jamboree<br>She thought so much of this homely coon<br>She said you can call on me<br>He went to her house most ev&#8217;ry night<br>For that gal did certainly live swell<br>He thought he had her good and &#8220;pat&#8221;<br>So his love began to tell<br>But this gal looked up his pedigree<br>Which wasn&#8217;t very bright<br>He was a gambling man, a chicken thief<br>And stayed out late at night<br>So the very next time this coon came round<br>She gave him the marble heart<br>But these are the words he sung to her<br>When she told him to depart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>I likes the place so much I hates to leave<br>When I am far away I know I&#8217;m going to grieve<br>Don&#8217;t pass me up and let me go<br>Baby give me one more show<br>For I likes the place so much I hates to leave<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. When this coon found he was dispossessed<br>From that girls society<br>He went and got his liquor on<br>And was full as full could be<br>He started back to that gals house<br>Just on purpose for to fight<br>You&#8217;d think a cyclone struck that place<br>The way he tore up things that night<br>He broke up all the furniture<br>The crockry ware as well<br>Tore the carpets up from off the floor<br>Like a wild man he did yell<br>But a big police man tamed him down<br>And was taking him away<br>He tried to win that yaller gal back<br>As loudly he did say<\/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\/04\/I-Likes-the-Place-So-Much-I-Hates-To-Leave.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] A popular song from 1899Words by W. E. BrowningMusic by Bernard Franklin The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics 1. A colored gent met a yallar galAt a ragtime jamboreeShe thought so much of this homely coonShe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/i-likes-the-place-so-much-i-hates-to-leave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Likes the Place So Much I Hates To Leave&#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-1779","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-sH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1779","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=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4720,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1779\/revisions\/4720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}