{"id":418,"date":"2018-09-01T01:54:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=418"},"modified":"2023-05-16T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T11:34:13","slug":"coon-coon-coon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/coon-coon-coon\/","title":{"rendered":"Coon Coon Coon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: This song contains racial stereotypes. It is not our intention to spread hatred. It is being presented in its original form for the sake of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a great 1900 song<br>words by Gene Jefferson<br>music by Leo Friedman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is unfortunate that great music like this which was associated with African-Americans came with such tasteless comic lyrics. It was a sign of the times and was not fully eradicated until the civil rights movement of the 1960s.<\/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\/Coon_Coon_Coon.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Coon_Coon_Coon - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-ee4c4fd7-1117-47bb-b1d1-28898c2429fe\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Coon_Coon_Coon.pdf\">Coon_Coon_Coon &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Coon_Coon_Coon.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-ee4c4fd7-1117-47bb-b1d1-28898c2429fe\">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-841df61e-d6e0-475f-87b6-80960daf3385\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Coon-Coon-Coon.mid\">Coon Coon Coon &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Coon-Coon-Coon.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-841df61e-d6e0-475f-87b6-80960daf3385\">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. Although it&#8217;s not my color<br>I&#8217;m feeling mighty blue<br>I&#8217;ve got a lot of trouble<br>I&#8217;ll tell it all to you<br>I&#8217;m certainly clean disgusted<br>With life, and that&#8217;s a fact<br>Because my hair is woolly<br>And because my color&#8217;s black<br>My gal, she took a notion<br>Against the colored race<br>She said if I would win her<br>I&#8217;d have to change my face<br>She said if she should wed me<br>That she&#8217;d regret it soon<br>And now I&#8217;m shook, yes, good and hard<br>Because I am a coon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Coon, Coon, Coon<br>I wish my color would fade<br>Coon, Coon, Coon<br>I&#8217;d like a different shade<br>Coon, Coon, Coon<br>Morning, night and noon<br>I wish I was a white man<br>&#8216;Stead of a Coon, Coon, Coon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. I had my face enameled<br>I had my hair made straight<br>I dressed up like a white man<br>And certainly did look great<br>Then started out to see her<br>Just shortly after dark<br>But on the way to meet my babe<br>I had to cross a park<br>Just as I was a-thinking<br>I had things fixed up right<br>I passed a tree where two doves<br>Sat making love at night<br>They stopped and looked me over<br>I saw my finish soon<br>When both those birds said good and loud<br>&#8220;Coo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oon&#8221;<\/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\/2018\/09\/Coon-Coon-Coon.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: This song contains racial stereotypes. It is not our intention to spread hatred. It is being presented in its original form for the sake of music history.] a great 1900 songwords by Gene Jeffersonmusic by Leo Friedman It is unfortunate that great music like this which was associated with African-Americans came with such tasteless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/coon-coon-coon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coon Coon 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-418","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-6K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}