{"id":295,"date":"2018-08-26T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=295"},"modified":"2023-05-15T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T10:49:19","slug":"bully-song","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/bully-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Bully Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: From a time when racial stereotypes were used for entertainment. No hatred is intended here. This song is being presented in its original form as part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 1896 popular song<br>words and music by Charles E. Trevathan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This song is called May Irwin&#8217;s song. It was written for her. She sang it and made it popular. There is a video of May Irwin singing it on YouTube. Her tempo  is 118 bpm. It is the basis for the fiddle tune Bully of the Town.<\/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:&nbsp;<\/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\/Bully-Song.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Bully Song - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1be1a7fa-0827-4a01-9aad-0755bafe9b92\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bully-Song.pdf\">Bully Song &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bully-Song.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1be1a7fa-0827-4a01-9aad-0755bafe9b92\">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:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-762e95b6-9e49-4464-b91c-502c1186a7a5\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bully-Song.mid\">Bully Song &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bully-Song.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-762e95b6-9e49-4464-b91c-502c1186a7a5\">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. Have yo&#8217; heard about dat bully dat&#8217;s just come to town<br>He&#8217;s round among de niggers a layin&#8217; their bodies down<br>I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; for dat bully, and he must be found<br>I&#8217;m a Tennessee nigger, and I don&#8217;t allow<br>No red-eyed river roustabout with me to raise a row<br>I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; for dat bully, and I&#8217;ll make him bow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>When I walk dat levee round, round, round, round<br>When I walk dat levee round, round, round, round<br>When I walk dat levee round,<br>I&#8217;m a-lookin&#8217; for dat bully an&#8217; he must be found<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. I&#8217;s gwine down the street with my ax in my hand<br>I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; for dat bully and I&#8217;ll sweep him off dis land<br>I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; for dat bully, and he must be found<br>I&#8217;m a take &#8216;long my razor, I&#8217;se gwine to carve him deep<br>And when I see dat bully, I&#8217;ll lay him down to sleep<br>I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; for dat bully, and he must be found<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. I went to a wingin&#8217; down at Parson Jones&#8217;<br>Took along my trusty blade to carve dat nigger&#8217;s bones<br>Just a-lookin&#8217; for dat bully, to hear his groans<br>I coonjined in the front door, the coons were prancing high<br>For dat levee darkey I skinned my foxy eye<br>Just a lookin&#8217; for dat bully but he wan&#8217;t nigh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. I asked Miss Pansy Blossom if she would wing a reel<br>She says, &#8220;Law, Mr. Johnsing, how high you make me feel&#8221;<br>Then you ought to see me shake my sugar heel<br>I was sandin&#8217; down the Mobile Buck, just to cut a shine<br>Some coon across my smeller swiped a watermelon rin&#8217;<br>I drawed my steel dat gemmen for to fin&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. I riz up like a black cloud and took a look aroun&#8217;<br>There was dat new bully standin&#8217; on the ground<br>I&#8217;ve been lookin&#8217; for you, nigger, and I&#8217;ve got you found<br>Razors &#8216;gun a-flyin&#8217;, niggers &#8216;gun to squawk<br>I lit upon that bully just like a sparrow hawk<br>And dat nigger was just a dyin&#8217; to take a walk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6. When I got through with bully, a doctor and a nurse<br>Wan&#8217;t no good to dat nigger, so they put him in a hearse<br>A cyclone couldn&#8217;t have tore him up much worse<br>You don&#8217;t hear &#8217;bout dat nigger dat treated folks so free<br>Go down up the levee, and his face you&#8217;ll never see<br>Dere&#8217;s only one boss bully, and dat one is me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Encore:<br>When you see me comin&#8217;, hist your windows high<br>When you see me goin&#8217;, hang your heads and cry<br>I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; for dat bully, and he must die<br>My madness keeps a risin&#8217;, and I&#8217;se not gwine to get left<br>I&#8217;m gettin&#8217; so bed dat I&#8217;m askeer&#8217;d of myself<br>I was lookin&#8217; for dat bully, now he&#8217;s on the shelf<\/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\/The-Bully-Song.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: From a time when racial stereotypes were used for entertainment. No hatred is intended here. This song is being presented in its original form as part of music history.] A 1896 popular songwords and music by Charles E. Trevathan This song is called May Irwin&#8217;s song. It was written for her. She sang it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/bully-song\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bully Song&#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-295","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-4L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295","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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}