{"id":2830,"date":"2022-08-19T22:36:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T22:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=2830"},"modified":"2024-07-25T13:14:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T13:14:17","slug":"every-race-has-a-flag-but-the-coon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/every-race-has-a-flag-but-the-coon\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Race Has a Flag but the 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\">A popular song from 1900.<br>Words and music by Will A. Heelan &amp; J. Fred Helf.<\/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\/08\/Every-Race-Has-a-Flag-but-the-Coon-1900.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-7c3195f1-3673-4b0c-8213-52d765472b36\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Every-Race-Has-a-Flag-but-the-Coon-1900.pdf\">Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Every-Race-Has-a-Flag-but-the-Coon-1900.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-7c3195f1-3673-4b0c-8213-52d765472b36\">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-78a53eab-631e-434c-8adb-b4be70146e4b\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Every_Race_Has_A_Flag_But_The_Coon_1900.mid\">Every_Race_Has_A_Flag_But_The_Coon &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Every_Race_Has_A_Flag_But_The_Coon_1900.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-78a53eab-631e-434c-8adb-b4be70146e4b\">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. The leader of the Blackville Club arose last Labor night<br>And said, &#8220;When we were on parade today<br>I really felt so much ashamed I wished I could turn white<br>&#8216;Cause all the white folks march&#8217;d with banners gay<br>Just at de stand, de German Band<br>They waved their flag and played &#8220;De Wacht am Rhine&#8221;<br>The Scotch Brigade, each man arrayed<br>In new plaid dresses marched to &#8220;Auld Lang Syne&#8221;<br>Even Spaniards and Swedes, folks of all kinds and creeds<br>Had their banners except de coons alone<br>Ev&#8217;ry nation can brag &#8217;bout some kind of a flag<br>Why can&#8217;t we get an emblem of our own?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>For Ireland has her Harp and Shamrock<br>England floats her Lion bold<br>Even China waves a Dragon<br>Germany an Eagle gold<br>Bonnie Scotland loves a Thistle<br>Turkey has her Crescent Moon<br>And what won&#8217;t Yankees do<br>For the Old Red White and Blue<br>Ev&#8217;ry race has a flag but the coon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. He says, &#8220;Now I&#8217;ll suggest a flag<br>That ought to win a prize<br>Just take a flannel shirt and paint it red<br>Then draw a chicken on it<br>With two poker dice for eyes<br>An&#8217; have it wavin&#8217; razors &#8217;round its head<br>To make it quaint, you&#8217;ve got to paint<br>A possum, with a pork chop in its teeth<br>To give it tone, a big hambone<br>You sketch upon a banjo underneath<br>And be sure not to skip just a policy slip<br>Have it marked four-eleven forty-four<br>Then them Irish and Dutch<br>They can&#8217;t guy us so much<br>We should have had this emblem long before&#8221;<\/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 popular song from 1900.Words and music by Will A. Heelan &amp; J. Fred Helf. The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics 1. The leader of the Blackville Club arose last Labor nightAnd said, &#8220;When we were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/every-race-has-a-flag-but-the-coon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Every Race Has a Flag but the 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-2830","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-JE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2830","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=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2830\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}