{"id":244,"date":"2018-08-26T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T17:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=244"},"modified":"2023-05-13T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T13:15:49","slug":"believe-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/believe-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Believe Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: racial terms. Original is presented here as a part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1909 popular song<br>words by Alex Rogers<br>music by Bert A. Williams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\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\/2018\/08\/Believe-Me.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Believe Me - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a8434052-09fc-4664-bc40-6f1773ad8364\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Believe-Me.pdf\">Believe Me &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Believe-Me.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-a8434052-09fc-4664-bc40-6f1773ad8364\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accompaniment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-ddb8668b-9b83-4400-9c6e-0fd75b34fea7\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Believe-Me.mid\">Believe Me &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Believe-Me.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-ddb8668b-9b83-4400-9c6e-0fd75b34fea7\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. I&#8217;m goin to git a good roun&#8217; rock<br>An&#8217; hide it right in thare<br>An de nex&#8217; smart man what &#8216;proaches me<br>I&#8217;ll knock off some o&#8217; his hair<br>Frum early childhood up &#8217;till now<br>How &#8217;tis I sho can&#8217;t see<br>Each man on earth wid a gole-brick<br>Hunts up and den finds me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>But believe me<br>I&#8217;m gettin&#8217; tired of always bein&#8217; de dub<br>Deys worked on me so faithfully<br>&#8216;Til I&#8217;se wore most to a nub<br>You all have heard about dat straw<br>What broke de camel&#8217;s back<br>Well a bubble added to my load<br>Would sholy make mine crack<br>But believe me<br>Wo be to he or she<br>That &#8216;temps to ease me dat bubble<br>Believe me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. I caught some lovely mountain trout<br>Las&#8217; Sunday week ago<br>A man say, &#8220;See dat house up dare<br>Dey&#8217;ll buy um frum you sho&#8221;<br>The house was up da mountain side<br>At leas fo&#8217; miles or mo&#8217;<br>I clamed up dare an&#8217; showed my fish<br>De gent&#8217;man he said, &#8220;No&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>But believe me<br>I was sterelized but I des started down<br>And when I was &#8217;bout two-thirds down<br>I heard a fur-off sound<br>I turned, it &#8217;twas de man up dare<br>A-wavin&#8217; dis here way<br>Well I clamed on back de man says<br>&#8220;An&#8217; we don&#8217;t want none next Sunday&#8221;<br>But believe me<br>Ef I&#8217;d had a gun an&#8217; some bullets<br>I&#8217;d assasinated him sure<br>Believe me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. &#8216;Twas in a side-show of a circus<br>Where I happened once<br>I met a man wid great long hair<br>What done knife throwing stunts<br>His wife what he throwed knives at<br>She was sick as she could be<br>An&#8217; he offered me two dollars<br>Fer to throw de knives at me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>But believe me<br>I almost los&#8217; my breath<br>But I des lief be stabbed as fer<br>To have to starve to death<br>As de fus knife it went whizzin&#8217; by<br>My eyes got like de moon<br>Den a child-like voice cried frum de crowd<br>&#8220;Good Lord, he missed de coon&#8221;<br>But believe me<br>I megidly left the platform<br>An de vicinity, believe me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\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\/04\/Believe-Me.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: racial terms. Original is presented here as a part of music history.] a 1909 popular songwords by Alex Rogersmusic by Bert A. Williams The sheet music: Accompaniment: Lyrics 1. I&#8217;m goin to git a good roun&#8217; rockAn&#8217; hide it right in thareAn de nex&#8217; smart man what &#8216;proaches meI&#8217;ll knock off some o&#8217; his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/believe-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Believe Me&#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-244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-3W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244","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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}