{"id":308,"date":"2018-08-28T14:43:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=308"},"modified":"2023-05-15T11:11:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T11:11:34","slug":"at-the-high-brown-babies-ball","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/at-the-high-brown-babies-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"At the High Brown Babies&#8217; Ball"},"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 1919.<br>Words and music by Benny Davis, Sid and Ernie Erdman.<\/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:<\/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\/At-the-High-Brown-Babies-Ball.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of At the High Brown Babies&apos; Ball - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-0ba5ac24-f9e0-4dd1-809e-ce39cea6e87b\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/At-the-High-Brown-Babies-Ball.pdf\">At the High Brown Babies&#8217; Ball &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/At-the-High-Brown-Babies-Ball.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-0ba5ac24-f9e0-4dd1-809e-ce39cea6e87b\">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 by James Pitt-Payne:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-55e93d73-f417-4f9b-ac1c-049ce5eed131\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/At_The_High_Brown_Babies_Ball_1919_s_JPP.mid\">At_The_High_Brown_Babies_Ball &#8211; MDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/At_The_High_Brown_Babies_Ball_1919_s_JPP.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-55e93d73-f417-4f9b-ac1c-049ce5eed131\">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. Sweetie dear, there&#8217;s a taxi waitin&#8217;<br>Sweetie dear, don&#8217;t be hesitatin&#8217;<br>Soon we&#8217;ll be, you and me<br>Dancin&#8217; \u2018round in high society<br>Swell affair, ev&#8217;rybody&#8217;s going&#8217;<br>Bring your dancin&#8217; shoes that&#8217;s all<br>Come on babe, we&#8217;re bound to make a showin&#8217;<br>At the High Brown Babies&#8217; Ball<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>When the band begins to play<br>Ev&#8217;ry one will start to sway<br>We&#8217;ll start slow just for a bluff<br>And when I say &#8220;Let&#8217;s go, babe!&#8221; do your stuff<br>We&#8217;ll be &#8220;Johnny on the spot&#8221;<br>For what it takes we sure have got<br>We&#8217;ll &#8220;Walk the Dog&#8221; and &#8220;Ball the Jack&#8221;<br>&#8220;Tickle Toe&#8221; forward then &#8220;Shimmie&#8221; back<br>We got to show some class, that\u2019s all<br>At the High Brown Babies\u2019 Ball<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Sweetie dear, there\u2019ll be nothin\u2019 to it<br>Sweetie dear, you and me can do it<br>Don\u2019t be slow, come let\u2019s go<br>Ev\u2019ry one there will envy us I know<br>Sweetie dear, When we start our struttin\u2019<br>For our stuff they\u2019re bound to fall<br>Come on babe, for we won\u2019t stop at nothin\u2019<br>At the High Brown Babies\u2019 Ball<\/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-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wbOhttA_zog?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\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 1919.Words and music by Benny Davis, Sid and Ernie Erdman. The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics 1. Sweetie dear, there&#8217;s a taxi waitin&#8217;Sweetie dear, don&#8217;t be hesitatin&#8217;Soon we&#8217;ll be, you and meDancin&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/at-the-high-brown-babies-ball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At the High Brown Babies&#8217; Ball&#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-308","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-4Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308","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=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3850,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions\/3850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}