{"id":5478,"date":"2025-10-13T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=5478"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:36:15","slug":"jus-a-listen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/jus-a-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Jus’ a-Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plantation Song a la coon, 1894
Words by W. R. Kaharl
Music by B. M. Davision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Source: Detroit Public Library,
The Hackley Collection;
Digital ID: dpl-hac-11055.dc
OCLC Record ID: 50618895]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jus’ a-Listen – MIDI<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. De odder night I went to a walk
    Jus\u2019 a-listen to dis coon.
    Dere was plenty of fun and plenty of talk,
    Come an\u2019 listen to dis coon.
    Dere was one gal dar tho\u2019t she was divine
    Dressed up to kill, how she did shine
    But I had dat walk down a little too fine,
    Jus\u2019 yer listen to dis coon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Chorus:
    Jus\u2019 a-listen, come an\u2019 listen,
    For Ise gwine away right soon
    Not all de tricks dey make
    Could keep me from dat cake
    Jus\u2019 yer listen to dis coon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. We circled roun\u2019, my hon\u2019 an\u2019 I
      Jus\u2019 a-listen to dis coon.
      De way she cut up would a made you die,
      Come an\u2019 listen to dis coon.
      When de judge dun gib dat big cake to me
      Dere was mo\u2019 fun dan you eber see
      But it wan\u2019t no use for to foolwid me,
      Jus\u2019 yer listen to dis coon<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      [WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] Plantation Song a la coon, 1894Words by W. R. KaharlMusic by B. M. Davision. [Source: Detroit Public Library,The Hackley Collection;Digital ID: dpl-hac-11055.dcOCLC Record ID: 50618895] Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb: Lyrics Chorus:Jus\u2019 a-listen, come an\u2019 listen,For Ise gwine … Continue reading “Jus’ a-Listen”<\/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-5478","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-1qm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5478","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=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5480,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5478\/revisions\/5480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}