{"id":5145,"date":"2024-08-06T13:56:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=5145"},"modified":"2024-08-06T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:57:30","slug":"cupid-might-have-been-a-little-coon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/cupid-might-have-been-a-little-coon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cupid Might Have Been a Little Coon"},"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 musical &#8220;The Explorers&#8221;, 1901<br>Words by Bert Leston Taylor<br>Music by Walter H. Lewis<\/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\/08\/Cupid-Might-Have-Been-a-Little-Coon-1901.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Cupid Might Have Been a Little Coon - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a2f611a0-6347-4c83-a887-b0856f324630\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cupid-Might-Have-Been-a-Little-Coon-1901.pdf\">Cupid Might Have Been a Little Coon &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cupid-Might-Have-Been-a-Little-Coon-1901.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-a2f611a0-6347-4c83-a887-b0856f324630\">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-edfba371-cbc7-4ecf-bec8-df8654d07d70\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cupid_Might_Have_Been_A_Little_Coon_1901_s_JPP.mid\">Cupid_Might_Have_Been_A_Little_Coon &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cupid_Might_Have_Been_A_Little_Coon_1901_s_JPP.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-edfba371-cbc7-4ecf-bec8-df8654d07d70\">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>The busy bee of joyous June<br>Improves each shining hour<br>He dips his little honey spoon<br>In every yielding flower<br>He sips from yellow, sips from white<br>No chaliced sweet declines<br>It&#8217;s all the same in his sweet game<br>He draws no color lines<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Refrain<br>For honey is sweet, sweet, wild or tame<br>Dark is sweeter, so dark folk claim<br>But honey, is honey, honey just the same<br>According to the busy bee of June<br>And Cupid is color blind, so they say<br>Doesn&#8217;t know white from black, or gray<br>For all we know to the contrary<br>Cupid might have been a little coon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Oh! color&#8217;s but a fleeting show<br>For color comes and goes<br>The bee is not attracted by<br>The blush upon the rose<br>With busy little honey spoon<br>The honey cell he mines<br>From lip to lip he goes to sip<br>And draws no color lines<\/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 musical &#8220;The Explorers&#8221;, 1901Words by Bert Leston TaylorMusic by Walter H. Lewis The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics RefrainFor honey is sweet, sweet, wild or tameDark is sweeter, so dark folk claimBut honey, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/cupid-might-have-been-a-little-coon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cupid Might Have Been a Little 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-5145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-1kZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5145","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=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5145\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}