{"id":2217,"date":"2022-02-09T00:25:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T00:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=2217"},"modified":"2024-09-20T09:42:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T13:42:47","slug":"neath-the-dixie-moon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/neath-the-dixie-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Neath the Dixie Moon"},"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 cake walk from 1916.<br>Words by Dave Allan.<br>Music by Bob Allan.<\/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\/2022\/02\/\u2018Neath-the-Dixie-Moon-1916.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of \u2018Neath the Dixie Moon - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-525e4ae5-5543-4cdb-997d-295f8f9b916c\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/\u2018Neath-the-Dixie-Moon-1916.pdf\">\u2018Neath the Dixie Moon &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/\u2018Neath-the-Dixie-Moon-1916.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-525e4ae5-5543-4cdb-997d-295f8f9b916c\">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-b6e4542f-400f-4da5-ae45-770c3c484e8f\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Neath_The_Dixie_Moon_1916_s_JPP.mid\">Neath_The_Dixie_Moon &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Neath_The_Dixie_Moon_1916_s_JPP.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b6e4542f-400f-4da5-ae45-770c3c484e8f\">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\">Where are those darkies going?<br>What&#8217;s causing all this fuss?<br>Lordy! what a crowd<br>They sure are acting mighty proud<br>Old Black Joe and Mammy Chloe<br>Are riding in a jitney bus<br>Far away comes music stealing<br>Full of raggy harmony<br>Soon we&#8217;ll be going<br>Where there&#8217;s a showing<br>Of the best cake walkers in the land<br>Sweet Cookie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Under the silv&#8217;ry Dixie moonlight<br>Ev&#8217;ry one is happy and their eyes are bright<br>Coons from miles around<br>Cakewalk up and down<br>Old Black Joe and Mammy Chloe hollered<br>&#8220;Scatter ev&#8217;rybody, give us plenty show&#8221;<br>Here&#8217;s where you see the classy prancers<br>Stepping those real plantation dances<br>The creole band played an Indigo melody<br>It sounded like a haunting, taunting<br>African Raphsody at Eli Green&#8217;s Cakewalk<br>\u2018Neath the Dixie moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. There&#8217;s Conko Mukes and Mandy<br>A-tryin&#8217; for the prize<br>Skeeter Butts and Goldie Lee<br>Will give them some surprise<br>Some of the steps have so much &#8220;Pep&#8221;<br>They never have been seen before<br>For the Mobile Flip and Hen Scratch Dip<br>They sure do raise some roar<br>Long about morning ev&#8217;ryone&#8217;s yawning<br>&#8216;Cept the darkies who have copped the prize<br>Sweet Cookie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\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 cake walk from 1916.Words by Dave Allan.Music by Bob Allan. The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics Where are those darkies going?What&#8217;s causing all this fuss?Lordy! what a crowdThey sure are acting mighty proudOld Black Joe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/neath-the-dixie-moon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neath the Dixie Moon&#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-2217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-zL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2217","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=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2217\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}