{"id":2988,"date":"2022-09-01T14:50:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=2988"},"modified":"2024-07-27T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T11:34:32","slug":"nobody-has-more-trouble-than-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/nobody-has-more-trouble-than-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Has More Trouble Than Me"},"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 1905.<br>Words by James Burris.<br>Music by Chris Smith.<\/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\/09\/Nobody-has-More-Trouble-than-Me.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Nobody has More Trouble than Me - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-76a7279b-c052-4822-9296-9df94b7c2ab8\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Nobody-has-More-Trouble-than-Me.pdf\">Nobody has More Trouble than Me &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Nobody-has-More-Trouble-than-Me.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-76a7279b-c052-4822-9296-9df94b7c2ab8\">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-d241c823-2a3e-4dbb-9de9-79789391f302\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Nobody_Has_More_Trouble_Than_Me_1905.mid\">Nobody_Has_More_Trouble_Than_Me &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Nobody_Has_More_Trouble_Than_Me_1905.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d241c823-2a3e-4dbb-9de9-79789391f302\">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. I was never blessed with luck<br>Said Stonewall Jackson Lee,<br>There&#8217;s Johnson&#8217;s got a job, Jasper&#8217;s got a job<br>Ev&#8217;rybody&#8217;s got a job but me<br>Now I once heard<br>A rabbits left hind leg was just the goods,<br>So I got myself some left hind legs<br>While huntin&#8217; thro&#8217; de woods<br>To show my luck they gave away<br>Free coffee one cold night<br>We lined up just like soldiers<br>For a front place I did fight,<br>Instead of havin&#8217; just one left leg<br>I had bout three or four,<br>But when I reached dat coffee cart<br>De man said, &#8220;Ain&#8217;t no more&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Ain&#8217;t nobody, never anybody<br>Had more trouble than me,<br>Oh! I&#8217;m wishin&#8217;<br>I&#8217;m a goin&#8217; fishin&#8217; for some sympathy,<br>Just my luck after blowin&#8217; and a puffin&#8217;<br>To reach dat coffee cart and den get nuthin&#8217;<br>Ain&#8217;t nobody, never anybody<br>Had more trouble than me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Near a graveyard Stonewall passed<br>While goin&#8217; home one night,<br>And walkin&#8217; long de road in a narrow path<br>He was lookin&#8217; neither left nor right.<br>With rabbits legs clasped in his hand<br>He thought no one was near,<br>But ev&#8217;ry step that Stonewall took<br>An echo he would hear.<br>He coughed and heard the echo,<br>So he stopped and said &#8220;Who dat?&#8221;<br>It echoed back and Stone exclaimed<br>&#8220;Now Who dat? said Who dat?&#8221;<br>I ain&#8217;t afraid of ghosts and things<br>While I have strength and health,<br>But whosoever said Who dat,<br>Can stay here by himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Ain&#8217;t nobody, never anybody<br>Had more trouble than me,<br>Oh! I&#8217;m wishin&#8217;<br>I&#8217;m a goin&#8217; fishin&#8217; for some sympathy,<br>Reached my home was a blowin&#8217; and a puffin&#8217;<br>I made dat fust mile in exactly nuthin&#8217;,<br>Ain&#8217;t nobody, never anybody<br>Had more trouble than me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. I&#8217;m a goin&#8217; to try once more<br>I&#8217;ll rent myself a hall,<br>It&#8217;s just the time o&#8217; year,<br>All de coons are here,<br>I&#8217;m a goin&#8217; to give a fancy ball.<br>I advertised till I was broke,<br>Then for a special treat,<br>I fixed them up a welcome sign<br>Made out of rabbits feet.<br>The day before the ball come off<br>The sun shone bright and clear,<br>I says my luck has changed at last<br>I have no more to fear,<br>But when the night arrived<br>It rained just like a storm at sea,<br>And the only ones dat came at all<br>Was de janitor and me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Ain&#8217;t nobody, never anybody<br>Had more trouble than me,<br>Oh! I&#8217;m wishin&#8217;<br>I&#8217;m a goin&#8217; fishin&#8217; for some sympathy,<br>Just my luck after advertisin&#8217;<br>To have the biggest rainstorm of the season,<br>Ain&#8217;t nobody, never anybody<br>Had more trouble than me.<\/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 1905.Words by James Burris.Music by Chris Smith. The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics 1. I was never blessed with luckSaid Stonewall Jackson Lee,There&#8217;s Johnson&#8217;s got a job, Jasper&#8217;s got a jobEv&#8217;rybody&#8217;s got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/nobody-has-more-trouble-than-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nobody Has More Trouble Than 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-2988","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-Mc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2988","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=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5004,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2988\/revisions\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}