{"id":3842,"date":"2023-05-14T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=3842"},"modified":"2023-05-14T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T12:47:07","slug":"a-hot-time-in-the-old-town","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/a-hot-time-in-the-old-town\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hot Time in the Old Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial language. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 1896 song about a minstrel show revival meeting<br>words by Joe Hayden<br>music by Theodore A. Metz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Theo Metz was born in Germany but by 1886 he was traveling in Louisiana as band leader with McIntyre and Heath Minstrels. Their train pulled in to Hot Town (Marion, LA) and through the windows they saw a group of children starting a fire by the train tracks. Metz overheard a buddy say, \u201cThey\u2019re certainly having a hot time in the Old Town tonight.\u201d He used that for the title of a march tune he wrote for the minstrels the next day. They played it as an instrumental for ten years. Metz got one of the minstrels, Joe Hayden, to add lyrics in 1896. The intro and first part are schottische. There is no tempo change into the march. We have a YouTube video of Metz playing this song on violin. His tempo is 96 bpm.<\/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\/09\/Hot-Time-in-the-Old-Town.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Hot Time in the Old Town - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-971bc95b-7880-4036-827d-44d3f8154ca4\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hot-Time-in-the-Old-Town.pdf\">Hot Time in the Old Town &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hot-Time-in-the-Old-Town.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-971bc95b-7880-4036-827d-44d3f8154ca4\">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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-8914dfb9-aa22-4c44-b782-8510efb38a84\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hot-Time-in-the-Old-Town.mid\">Hot Time in the Old Town &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hot-Time-in-the-Old-Town.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-8914dfb9-aa22-4c44-b782-8510efb38a84\">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<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Come along get you ready wear your bran, bran new gown<br>For dere\u2019s gwine to be a meeting in that good, good old town<br>Where you know-ded ev\u2019ry body, and dey all know\u2019ded you<br>And you\u2019ve got a rabbits foot to keep away de hoodo<br>When you hear that the preaching does begin<br>Bend down low for to drive away your sin<br>And when you gets religion, You want to shout and sing<br>\u201cThere\u2019ll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>When you hear dem a bells go ding, ling ling<br>All join \u2019round and sweetly you must sing<br>And when the verse am through in the chorus all join in<br>\u201cThere\u2019ll be a hot time in the old town tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li>There\u2019ll be girls for ev\u2019ry body in that good, good old town<br>For dere\u2019s Miss Consola Davis and dere\u2019s Miss Gondolia Brown<br>And dere\u2019s Miss Johanna Beasely she am dressed all in red<br>I just hugged her and I kissed her and to me than she said<br>\u201cPlease oh please, oh, do not let me fall<br>You\u2019re all mine and I love you best of all<br>And you must be my man or I\u2019ll have no man at all<br>There\u2019ll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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\/DGBMBh1rG4Q?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 language. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] A 1896 song about a minstrel show revival meetingwords by Joe Haydenmusic by Theodore A. Metz Theo Metz was born in Germany but by 1886 he was traveling in Louisiana as band leader with McIntyre and Heath Minstrels. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/a-hot-time-in-the-old-town\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Hot Time in the Old Town&#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-3842","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-ZY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3842","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=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3842\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}