{"id":264,"date":"2018-08-26T17:59:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T17:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=264"},"modified":"2023-05-13T13:45:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T13:45:44","slug":"black-bottom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/black-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: racial terms follow. No hatred intended. This song is presented in its original form as a part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 1926 popular song<br>from the eighth annual edition of George White&#8217;s Scandals<br>words by B.G. De Sylva &amp; Lew Brown<br>music by Ray Henderson<\/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:\u00a0<\/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\/Black-Bottom.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Black Bottom - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-24de3daa-9765-40da-a0f4-bb89fc30f4b3\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Black-Bottom.pdf\">Black Bottom &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Black-Bottom.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-24de3daa-9765-40da-a0f4-bb89fc30f4b3\">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:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-26915c6e-726f-4ab2-a8ef-5d5ee40b6dc0\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Black-Bottom.mid\">Black Bottom &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Black-Bottom.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-26915c6e-726f-4ab2-a8ef-5d5ee40b6dc0\">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\">Oh, the black bottom of the Swannee River<br>Sometimes liked to shake and shiver<br>And it makes the darkies feel like strutting around<br>By watching they found a way to imitate it<br>I know they exaggerate it<br>But I wish that you could see the dance that they found<br>Every high brown gal and her bon bon buddy<br>Go down where the flats are muddy<br>To do a step that soon will be renowned<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Refrain<br>They call it Black Bottom, a new twister<br>It&#8217;s sure got &#8217;em, and oh, sister<br>They clap their hands and do a raggedy trot, Hot!<br>Old fellows with lumbago<br>And high yellows, away they go<br>They jump right in and give it all that they&#8217;ve got<br>They say that when that river bottom<br>Covered with ooze, start in to squirm<br>Couples dance and that&#8217;s the movement<br>They use, just like a worm<br>Black Bottom, a new rhythm<br>When you spot &#8217;em, you go with &#8217;em<br>And do that Black, Black Bottom all the day long<\/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\/Black-Bottom.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: racial terms follow. No hatred intended. This song is presented in its original form as a part of music history.] A 1926 popular songfrom the eighth annual edition of George White&#8217;s Scandalswords by B.G. De Sylva &amp; Lew Brownmusic by Ray Henderson The sheet music:\u00a0 Accompaniment:\u00a0 Lyrics Oh, the black bottom of the Swannee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/black-bottom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Bottom&#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-264","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-4g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264","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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3779,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}