{"id":2226,"date":"2022-02-18T02:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=2226"},"modified":"2024-06-20T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T13:20:31","slug":"wing-lees-ragtime-clock","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wing-lees-ragtime-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Wing Lee\u2019s Ragtime Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Warning: racial terms. Original presented as part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 1899 song. You can\u2019t stop it.<br>An Afro-Chinese song of high temperature.<br>Words and music by Al Trahern.<\/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\/Wing-Lees-Ragtime-Clock-1899.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Wing Lee&apos;s Ragtime Clock - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-19b8abbb-bfa6-4ac1-931f-5a0c0f271f1d\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Wing-Lees-Ragtime-Clock-1899.pdf\">Wing Lee&#8217;s Ragtime Clock &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Wing-Lees-Ragtime-Clock-1899.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-19b8abbb-bfa6-4ac1-931f-5a0c0f271f1d\">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-fed8fa45-a16e-4ec0-b0e1-5950ec4a3222\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Wing_Lees_Rag-Time_Clock_1899_s_JPP.mid\">Wing_Lees_Rag-Time_Clock &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Wing_Lees_Rag-Time_Clock_1899_s_JPP.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-fed8fa45-a16e-4ec0-b0e1-5950ec4a3222\">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. Wing Lee bought a clock the other day<br>He considered it no crime<br>But it caused him trouble people say<br>Just because it ticked ragtime<br>Coons all heard about this ragtime clock<br>They rushed in his laundry broke the lock<br>Wing Lee half asleep jumped out of bed<br>When he saw them dancing said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>No likee ragtime, no likee coon<br>All lookee samee to me<br>No likee ragtime, no likee coon<br>Shouted poor Wing Lee<br>He lost his temper pulled out his hair<br>Yelled for the darkies to stop<br>All the rag time coons were there<br>Dancing to the ragtime clock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Wing was almost crazy wanted fight<br>Didn\u2019t like the coons rough ways<br>Tried to stop the clock \u2019twas wound up tight<br>Sure to tick for eight long days<br>Then he called a copper dressed in blue<br>But he was a nigger dancer, too<br>When he heard the ragtime danced all night<br>Poor Wing yelled with all his might<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vocal song demo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Wing-Lees-Ragtime-Clock.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Warning: racial terms. Original presented as part of music history.] A 1899 song. You can\u2019t stop it.An Afro-Chinese song of high temperature.Words and music by Al Trahern. The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics 1. Wing Lee bought a clock the other dayHe considered it no crimeBut it caused him trouble people sayJust because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wing-lees-ragtime-clock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wing Lee\u2019s Ragtime Clock&#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-2226","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-zU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2226","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=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2226\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}