{"id":5506,"date":"2025-12-11T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=5506"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:48:15","slug":"are-you-comin-to-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/are-you-comin-to-the-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Comin&#8217; To the Ball?"},"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 novelty song from 1913<br>Words and music by Helen Trix<\/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\/2025\/12\/Are-You-Comin-To-the-Ball-1913.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Are You Comin&apos; To the Ball - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-64622dc9-b9df-4d19-95c3-3475eed71bed\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Are-You-Comin-To-the-Ball-1913.pdf\">Are You Comin&#8217; To the Ball &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Are-You-Comin-To-the-Ball-1913.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-64622dc9-b9df-4d19-95c3-3475eed71bed\">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-202a5bdb-4754-407c-8653-be88f56ffabf\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Are_You_Coming_To_The_Ball_1913_s_JPP.mid\">Are_You_Coming_To_The_Ball &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Are_You_Coming_To_The_Ball_1913_s_JPP.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-202a5bdb-4754-407c-8653-be88f56ffabf\">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&#8217;s a big event in Southern dark society<br>All the colored swells are certain to be there<br>And you&#8217;re sure to meet the belles of great propriety<br>With their lovely ruby lips and kinky hair<br>There&#8217;ll be Dinah Jones with Hanna Brown and Mandy Lou<br>There&#8217;ll be Johnson with his girl from Tennessee<br>There&#8217;ll be all the folks from Georgia who are well-to-do<br>So I&#8217;ll have to take you to the jamboree<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus:<br>Oh, are you coming to the ball with me?<br>Don&#8217;t miss this lovely spree<br>Now look here, baby, don&#8217;t you dare refuse me<br>If you do you&#8217;ll surely lose me<br>Oh, where the colored aristocrisy<br>Will have the two-step and the cake-walk there<br>The &#8220;turkey trot&#8221; the &#8220;grizzly bear&#8221;<br>The &#8220;Palmer house,&#8221; the &#8220;Bambashay&#8221;<br>And &#8220;Texas Tommy&#8221; light and gay<br>Honey, don&#8217;t you hesitate<br>Hurry up or you&#8217;ll be late<br>Oh, are you coming to the ball?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wear your yellow dress with tassels and your sash of blue<br>Wear a pompadour and diamonds in your shoes<br>When we do the &#8220;turkey trot,&#8221; my little lady love<br>You can bet your dear sweet life we&#8217;ll never lose<br>All the lords and dukes and princes from Bazooda Land<br>And the King and Queen from up the river Nile<br>They&#8217;ve engaged the dusky bluebloods to beat the band<br>So you know that ought to hold you for a while<\/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 novelty song from 1913Words and music by Helen Trix The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics Chorus:Oh, are you coming to the ball with me?Don&#8217;t miss this lovely spreeNow look here, baby, don&#8217;t you dare refuse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/are-you-comin-to-the-ball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are You Comin&#8217; To the Ball?&#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-5506","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-1qO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5506","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=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5510,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5506\/revisions\/5510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}