{"id":4806,"date":"2024-06-15T12:11:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T12:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=4806"},"modified":"2024-06-15T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T12:12:53","slug":"simple-little-tune","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/simple-little-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Little Tune"},"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\">From the comedy &#8220;Love O&#8217; Mike&#8221;, 1917<br>Words by Harry B. Smith<br>Music by Jerome Kern<\/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\/2024\/06\/Simple-Little-Tune-1917.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Simple-Little-Tune - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-577bac5c-b6e0-4a11-a951-6430891e8bf5\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Simple-Little-Tune-1917.pdf\">Simple-Little-Tune &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Simple-Little-Tune-1917.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-577bac5c-b6e0-4a11-a951-6430891e8bf5\">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-1a294b6a-5c7e-445a-82a6-e21f3d96bd0d\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Simple_Little_Tune_1917_Kern.mid\">Simple_Little_Tune &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Simple_Little_Tune_1917_Kern.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1a294b6a-5c7e-445a-82a6-e21f3d96bd0d\">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>There was once a little tune<br>Just a simple little thing<br>Of the kind that voiceless people<br>Always think that they can sing<br>It was born right in New York<br>But it went to England soon<br>Where a London Bard transformed it<br>To what he considered &#8220;coon&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Refrain<br>Way down in Dixie, where Cats-kill flows<br>Lives Susquehanna, my coal black Rose<br>Beside the possum she waits for me<br>In far Ohio by the Beerbohm tree<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Now that simple little tune<br>Took a trip to France one day<br>Where it grew quite dissipated<br>And became a bit risqu\u00e9<br>The next season it arrived<br>Home again but in disguise<br>For Mamselle Marigny sang it<br>With her shoulders and her eyes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Next, that wayward little tune<br>To Vienna, sailed, one day<br>Where a great musician heard it<br>And composed it right away<br>In an opera, it appeared<br>Minus all its former faults<br>And attracted admiration<br>As a fascinating waltz<\/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.] From the comedy &#8220;Love O&#8217; Mike&#8221;, 1917Words by Harry B. SmithMusic by Jerome Kern The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics RefrainWay down in Dixie, where Cats-kill flowsLives Susquehanna, my coal black RoseBeside the possum she waits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/simple-little-tune\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Simple Little Tune&#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-4806","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-1fw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4806","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=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4806\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}