{"id":1881,"date":"2021-01-26T14:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1881"},"modified":"2024-04-29T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:00:00","slug":"that-is-a-habit-i-never-had","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/that-is-a-habit-i-never-had\/","title":{"rendered":"That is a Habit I Never Had"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[DISCLAIMER: This song contains antiquated racial language. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 1904 popular song<br>Words and music by Walter Wilson<\/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\/That-is-a-Habit-I-Never-Had.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of That-is-a-Habit-I-Never-Had - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-3c416e44-3a16-4b0d-b73c-181290c063b0\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/That-is-a-Habit-I-Never-Had.pdf\">That-is-a-Habit-I-Never-Had &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/That-is-a-Habit-I-Never-Had.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-3c416e44-3a16-4b0d-b73c-181290c063b0\">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-26aebcba-da57-438c-af22-36798c79a4c9\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/That_Is_A_Habit_I_Never_Had_1904_s_JPP.mid\">That_Is_A_Habit_I_Never_Had &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/That_Is_A_Habit_I_Never_Had_1904_s_JPP.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-26aebcba-da57-438c-af22-36798c79a4c9\">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. Listen now white folks, while I tell to you<br>Coons without a habit are mighty few<br>Some have a habit of dressing neat<br>While my bad habit is to sleep and eat<br>I&#8217;m telling all you coons that you will all be dead<br>If you don&#8217;t stop halin&#8217; cigarettes up in your head<br>There&#8217;s two habits I have barred<br>They are fightin&#8217; bout my gal and working hard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Well that is a habit I never had<br>That kind of habit is mighty bad<br>I&#8217;m telling you coons now I&#8217;m mighty glad<br>That kind of habit I never had<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Tell you how a habit got a friend of mine<br>Who owned a half interest in a silver mine<br>He got married, then his downfall came<br>In about six month he&#8217;d sold his claim<br>Now his money&#8217;s all gone and she throwed him down<br>He&#8217;s the raggedest coon that&#8217;s in this town<br>It serves him right, for he ruined his life<br>He had the foolish habit giving money to his wife<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. I never worked a day since I was born<br>I never had to get up early in the morn<br>Always had my meals brought to my bed<br>An easier life a coon never led<br>My wife says to me, &#8220;You big black Turk&#8221;<br>You&#8217;ll have to get out of here and get some work&#8221;<br>I looked at her, I shook my head<br>With a comfortable smile to her I said<\/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\/That-Is-a-Habit-I-Never-Had.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[DISCLAIMER: This song contains antiquated racial language. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] A 1904 popular songWords and music by Walter Wilson The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics 1. Listen now white folks, while I tell to youCoons without a habit are mighty fewSome have a habit of dressing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/that-is-a-habit-i-never-had\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That is a Habit I Never Had&#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-1881","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-ul","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1881","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=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4768,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1881\/revisions\/4768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}