{"id":1848,"date":"2020-07-09T17:16:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T17:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1848"},"modified":"2024-04-18T13:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:44:36","slug":"in-my-old-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/in-my-old-home\/","title":{"rendered":"In My Old Home"},"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\">In My Old Home (in Dixie land)<br>A 1908 popular song from the musical comedy &#8220;Bandana Land&#8221;<br>Words by Mord Allen<br>Music by Tom Lemonier<\/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\/2020\/07\/In-My-Old-Home-1908.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of In My Old Home - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-200fe8ad-febd-4d18-964b-676c442c3c64\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/In-My-Old-Home-1908.pdf\">In My Old Home &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/In-My-Old-Home-1908.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-200fe8ad-febd-4d18-964b-676c442c3c64\">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-96b23157-2190-454f-9244-f0c1ceb60172\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/In_My_Old_Home_1908_s_JPP.mid\">In_My_Old_Home &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/In_My_Old_Home_1908_s_JPP.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-96b23157-2190-454f-9244-f0c1ceb60172\">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\">\u00a0Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You ask a real darkey<br>What&#8217;s the dearest place on earth<br>What&#8217;s nearest to perfection in his mind<br>Where is the sum of happiness<br>Contentment and of mirth<br>That with the world to chose from he can find<br>He&#8217;ll never chose the Rockies<br>With their canyons and their snows<br>Nor Italy with its sunny skies so blue<br>Nor bonnie braes of Scotland<br>Where the mountain daisy grows<br>But this is what he&#8217;ll always answer you<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Refrain<br>In my old home, in Dixie land<br>In my old home, to me its grand<br>I can&#8217;t help what you think of it<br>There&#8217;s no place else on earth so fit<br>As my old home in Dixie land<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li>You ask him what of comfort<br>Can the South hold out to him<br>With all the things that go to vex him there<br>You tell him of the Phillipines<br>Where life&#8217;s not half so grim<br>And Cuba with its balmy southern air<br>But nothing can impress him<br>Though you pick the wide world o&#8217;er<br>Can bring the look of gladness to his eyes<br>And you&#8217;ll know his heart is loyal<br>Unto Dixie ever more<br>When you speak of comfort and he thus replies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] In My Old Home (in Dixie land)A 1908 popular song from the musical comedy &#8220;Bandana Land&#8221;Words by Mord AllenMusic by Tom Lemonier The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: \u00a0Lyrics RefrainIn my old home, in Dixie landIn my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/in-my-old-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In My Old Home&#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-1848","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-tO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1848","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=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4749,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1848\/revisions\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}