{"id":545,"date":"2018-09-04T13:12:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T13:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=545"},"modified":"2023-05-17T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T11:44:27","slug":"down-yonder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/down-yonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Down Yonder"},"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 fun 1921 song about the south often played instrumentally.<br>words and music by L. Wolfe Gilbert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This a variation Wolfie made on his Waiting For the Robert E. Lee (1912). It was written for an annual convention he performed for. He thought they would get tired of the original, so he gave them this variation in 1921.<\/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\/Down-Yonder.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Down Yonder - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-8a5fd2c8-0720-40a1-8afa-96de5da10762\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Down-Yonder.pdf\">Down Yonder &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Down-Yonder.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-8a5fd2c8-0720-40a1-8afa-96de5da10762\">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-c7a79555-08d3-4e6b-b03e-43e7bffa2575\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Down-Yonder.mid\">Down Yonder &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Down-Yonder.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-c7a79555-08d3-4e6b-b03e-43e7bffa2575\">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. Railroad train, railroad train, hurry some more<br>Put a little steam on just like never before<br>Hustle on, bustle on, I&#8217;ve got the blues<br>Yearning for my Swanee shore<br>Brother, if you only knew, you&#8217;d want to hurry up to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Down yonder someone beckons to me<br>Down yonder someone reckons on me<br>I seem to see a race in memory<br>Between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee<br>Swanee shore I miss you more and more<br>Every day, My mammy land, you&#8217;re simply grand<br>Down yonder when the folks get the news<br>Don&#8217;t wonder at the Hullabaloos<br>There&#8217;s daddy and mammy, there&#8217;s Ephraim and Sammy<br>Waitin&#8217; down yonder for me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Summer night, fields of white, bright cotton moon<br>My, but I feel glad, I&#8217;m gonna&#8217; see you all soon<br>&#8216;Lasses&#8217; Cakes, Mammy bakes, I taste them now<br>I can hear the darkies croon<br>I&#8217;ll see my sweetie once more<br>There&#8217;s lots of kissing in store<\/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\/2022\/04\/Down-Yonder.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] A fun 1921 song about the south often played instrumentally.words and music by L. Wolfe Gilbert This a variation Wolfie made on his Waiting For the Robert E. Lee (1912). It was written for an annual convention he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/down-yonder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Down Yonder&#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-545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-8N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}