{"id":5519,"date":"2025-12-15T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=5519"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:47:17","slug":"dats-de-way-to-spell-chicken","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/dats-de-way-to-spell-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Dat&#8217;s de Way To Spell Chicken"},"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 popular song from 1902<br>Words and music by Sidney L. Perrin and Bob Slater<\/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\/Dats-de-Way-To-Spell-Chicken-1902.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Dat&apos;s de Way To Spell Chicken - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-3b04eff3-f9f7-4cf3-ad47-8aff20738ef5\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dats-de-Way-To-Spell-Chicken-1902.pdf\">Dat&#8217;s de Way To Spell Chicken &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dats-de-Way-To-Spell-Chicken-1902.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-3b04eff3-f9f7-4cf3-ad47-8aff20738ef5\">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-c970f03e-d3ab-44aa-abcd-9525f8e0ffbd\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dats_De_Way_To_Spell_Chicken_1902_s_JPP.mid\">Dats_De_Way_To_Spell_Chicken &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dats_De_Way_To_Spell_Chicken_1902_s_JPP.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-c970f03e-d3ab-44aa-abcd-9525f8e0ffbd\">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>In the little country schoolhouse<br>Where de little darkies go<br>There is a little picanninny<br>By de name of Ragtime Joe<br>Now, when it comes to spelling<br>His ragtime brain works fast<br>He&#8217;s de only well learned scholar<br>Dat holds down his own class<br>One day de teacher call his class<br>To spell one sort of bird<br>Dat kind of bird was chickens<br>And they could not spell de word<br>So de teacher called on Ragtime Joe<br>To spell dat word to them<br>He didn&#8217;t hesitate a bit<br>This is how he began<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CHORUS:<br>C, dat&#8217;s de way to begin<br>H, dat&#8217;s de next letter in<br>I, dat am de third<br>C, dat&#8217;s to season de word<br>K, dat&#8217;s a-filling in<br>E, I&#8217;m near de end<br>C-H-I-C-K-E-N<br>Dat&#8217;s de way to spell chicken<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Parson Johnson gave a concert<br>In de old church-house one night.<br>He hired himself a lots of talent<br>Dat could sing and could recite<br>And when they pulled de curtain<br>Ev&#8217;rything went wrong, you know<br>Till one darkey loudly yelled<br>&#8220;Let&#8217;s hear from Ragtime Joe&#8221;<br>He sang a ragtime new coon song<br>But it did not take so well<br>He said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve went afrost on dat<br>I guess I&#8217;ll have to spell&#8221;<br>Then he told the audience dat<br>He had composed a chicken song<br>And when he spelled these words to them<br>He took de house by storm<\/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 popular song from 1902Words and music by Sidney L. Perrin and Bob Slater The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics CHORUS:C, dat&#8217;s de way to beginH, dat&#8217;s de next letter inI, dat am de thirdC, dat&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/dats-de-way-to-spell-chicken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dat&#8217;s de Way To Spell Chicken&#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-5519","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-1r1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5519","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=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5522,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5519\/revisions\/5522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}