{"id":2465,"date":"2022-04-30T17:26:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T17:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=2465"},"modified":"2024-06-22T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T12:47:14","slug":"a-dead-fly-coon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/a-dead-fly-coon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dead Fly Coon"},"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\">From Hoyt&#8217;s &#8220;A Stranger In New York&#8221;, 1898.<br>Words and music by Harry Rogers.<\/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\/04\/A-Dead-Fly-Coon-1898.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of A Dead Fly Coon - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-86ad773f-a427-4c56-bc09-f443be60c9b1\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/A-Dead-Fly-Coon-1898.pdf\">A Dead Fly Coon &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/A-Dead-Fly-Coon-1898.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-86ad773f-a427-4c56-bc09-f443be60c9b1\">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-2907cbdc-2bd4-446a-b2ac-1fe07ba00bb3\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/A_Dead_Fly_Coon_1898_s_JPP.mid\">A_Dead_Fly_Coon &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/A_Dead_Fly_Coon_1898_s_JPP.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-2907cbdc-2bd4-446a-b2ac-1fe07ba00bb3\">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. Now I&#8217;m a colored gentleman<br>As you can plainly see<br>Though some folks call me nigger<br>Yes! but that don&#8217;t bother me<br>I know I&#8217;m not a white man<br>Tho&#8217; I hope to change some day<br>And when the white folks shout<br>Who is dat coon, now dis is what I say<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>My name&#8217;s Pete Johnson<br>I can do a coon cake walk<br>My name&#8217;s Pete Johnson<br>And my education talks<br>My style just shows you<br>That I don&#8217;t go around with gawks<br>For I&#8217;m no loon, but a dead fly coon<br>And my name&#8217;s Pete Johnson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Now when I&#8217;m walking on Broadway<br>In the day time or the night<br>And the wenches they catch sight of me<br>Their color all turns white<br>And when I do approach them<br>In that coon-like cake walk style<br>Then they shout out, &#8220;Nigger, what&#8217;s your name&#8221;<br>Then I shout with a smile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. You&#8217;ve heard of niggers done turn white<br>But none you never saw<br>But I&#8217;m the nig&#8217; that lick&#8217;d<br>That Spaniard on the upper floor<br>I couldn&#8217;t stand to see his nationality about<br>So I hit him and I turned him white<br>And then commenced to shout<\/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.] From Hoyt&#8217;s &#8220;A Stranger In New York&#8221;, 1898.Words and music by Harry Rogers. The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics 1. Now I&#8217;m a colored gentlemanAs you can plainly seeThough some folks call me niggerYes! but that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/a-dead-fly-coon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Dead Fly Coon&#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-2465","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-DL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2465","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=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4866,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2465\/revisions\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}