{"id":2122,"date":"2021-09-08T14:20:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=2122"},"modified":"2024-06-16T13:31:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T13:31:48","slug":"you-may-go-but-this-will-bring-you-back","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/you-may-go-but-this-will-bring-you-back\/","title":{"rendered":"You May Go, But This Will Bring You Back"},"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 Coon Prophesy)<br>A popular song from 1898.<br>Words and music by Ben Harney.<\/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\/2021\/09\/You-May-Go-But-This-Will-Bring-You-Back-1898.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of You May Go But This Will Bring You Back - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-58bd5f5e-a40d-4793-b111-336dfc7af2df\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/You-May-Go-But-This-Will-Bring-You-Back-1898.pdf\">You May Go But This Will Bring You Back &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/You-May-Go-But-This-Will-Bring-You-Back-1898.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-58bd5f5e-a40d-4793-b111-336dfc7af2df\">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-30decf86-88a4-493b-8c1a-8ff23cf92d22\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/You_May_Go_But_This_Will_Bring_You_Back_1898_s_JPP.mid\">You_May_Go_But_This_Will_Bring_You_Back &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/You_May_Go_But_This_Will_Bring_You_Back_1898_s_JPP.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-30decf86-88a4-493b-8c1a-8ff23cf92d22\">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>A gambling coon had a fuss with his gal<br>One warm day in the spring<br>She had no right for to fuss and fight<br>For every dollar home he&#8217;d bring<br>But things were getting bad for that jap<br>Until his luck did change<br>She meant to have gone for it is true<br>She was packing up her things<br>But on that day luck come his way<br>And he had money to burn<br>He came home a happy coon<br>But on his return<br>He saw her trunk packed in the hall<br>A man was taking it out<br>When he saw her follow the trunk out<br>And loudly he did shout<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>You may go but this &#8216;er will bring you back<br>You&#8217;ll be sorry you ever gave me the sack<br>It worked her up and got her flurried<br>She heard these words as out she hurried<br>You may go but money will bring you back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The summer passed and winter came<br>The ground was covered with snow<br>When she changed her mind and left her ma<br>And thought straight back she&#8217;d go<br>So she wrote a note right to this moke<br>And asked him to take her back<br>But she&#8217;d no excuse and he&#8217;s bound to loose<br>Buying diamonds and a seal skin sack<br>He read the note that she sent<br>And then he shook his head<br>And told the boy there was no answer<br>And went right straight to bed<br>And early next morning this gal<br>Came a creeping up to this black man&#8217;s door<br>But she nearly fell dead when he said<br>I don&#8217;t need you never no more<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>You can go I don&#8217;t want you to ever come back<br>You can stay old gal and that is a fact<br>As she was leaving she heard him say<br>You&#8217;ve been a good pebble, but been washed away<br>You may go I don&#8217;t want you to ever come back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A week ago a darky went<br>To a chicken coop at night<br>And looking in the place like one of his race<br>The coon saw a bird in sight<br>He made a grab and caught that fowl<br>And started off in the night<br>The chicken said no and hollored<br>So the dogs began to bark and bite<br>And in a sack with the chicken on his back<br>He started to run for home<br>With dogs a-howling and a growling<br>And knowing at his bones<br>Old farmer Dunn reached for his gun<br>And out of the house he came<br>There was a report and a nigger fell<br>And I heart eh old man exclaim<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>You may run but the bun will bring you back<br>For it&#8217;s loaded to the muzzle with carpet tacks<br>The coon dropped down very lame and blind<br>The tacks made him look like a porcupine<br>He started right but an ambulance brought him back<\/p>\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.] (A Coon Prophesy)A popular song from 1898.Words and music by Ben Harney. The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: \u00a0Lyrics ChorusYou may go but this &#8216;er will bring you backYou&#8217;ll be sorry you ever gave me the sackIt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/you-may-go-but-this-will-bring-you-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You May Go, But This Will Bring You Back&#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-2122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-ye","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2122","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=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4836,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2122\/revisions\/4836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}