{"id":4471,"date":"2023-11-12T13:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=4471"},"modified":"2023-11-12T13:28:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:28:48","slug":"stay-in-your-own-backyard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/stay-in-your-own-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay in Your Own Backyard"},"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 pathetic ballad from 1899<br>Words by Karl Kennett<br>Music by Lyn Udall<\/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\/2023\/11\/Stay-In-Your-Own-Backyard-1899.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Stay-In-Your-Own-Backyard - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-305aa37c-d276-4201-a2f2-1b557fe10258\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Stay-In-Your-Own-Backyard-1899.pdf\">Stay-In-Your-Own-Backyard &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Stay-In-Your-Own-Backyard-1899.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-305aa37c-d276-4201-a2f2-1b557fe10258\">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 Benjamin R. Tubb:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-377aad28-68dc-4fc6-a693-1ee0c9818d35\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Stay-In-Your-Own-Backyard-1899.mid\">Stay-In-Your-Own-Backyard &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Stay-In-Your-Own-Backyard-1899.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-377aad28-68dc-4fc6-a693-1ee0c9818d35\">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<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lilac trees a blooming in the corner by the glade,<br>Mammy in the little cabin door,<br>Curly headed pickaninny comin&#8217; home so late,<br>Cryin&#8217; &#8217;cause his little heart is sore;<br>All the children playing &#8217;round have skin so white and fair,<br>None of them with him will ever play,<br>So Mammy in her lap takes the little weeping chap,<br>And says, in her kind old way:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Now honey, yo&#8217; stay in your own back yard.<br>Doan min&#8217; what dem white chiles do;<br>What show yo&#8217; suppose dey&#8217;s a gwine to gib<br>A black little coon like yo&#8217;?<br>So stay on dis side of de high boahd fence,<br>And honey, doan cry so hard:<br>Go out an&#8217; play, just as much as yo&#8217; please,<br>But stay in yo&#8217; own back yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li>Ev&#8217;ryday the children as they passed old mammy&#8217;s place,<br>Romping home from school at night or noon,<br>Peering through the fence would see this eager little face,<br>Such a wistful, lonesome little coon;<br>&#8216;Till one day the little face was gone forever more,<br>God had called this dusky little elf,<br>And Mammy in the door sat and rocked as oft before,<br>And crooned to her old black self<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] A pathetic ballad from 1899Words by Karl KennettMusic by Lyn Udall The sheet music: Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb: Lyrics ChorusNow honey, yo&#8217; stay in your own back yard.Doan min&#8217; what dem white chiles do;What show yo&#8217; suppose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/stay-in-your-own-backyard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stay in Your Own Backyard&#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-4471","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-1a7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4471","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=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4474,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4471\/revisions\/4474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}