{"id":5572,"date":"2026-01-21T15:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=5572"},"modified":"2026-01-21T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:28:33","slug":"dark-town-cabaret","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/dark-town-cabaret\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark-Town Cabaret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">A popular song from 1913<br>Words by Chas. Potter and Ferd. E. Mierisch<br>Music by Ed. Mobs<\/pre>\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\/2026\/01\/Dark-Town-Cabaret-1913.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Dark-Town Cabaret - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-42734036-b319-40b3-a571-08408f12565c\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Dark-Town-Cabaret-1913.pdf\">Dark-Town Cabaret &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Dark-Town-Cabaret-1913.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-42734036-b319-40b3-a571-08408f12565c\">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-6fd64163-6a20-4d70-a13e-adc30cefde7b\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Dark-Town_Cabaret_1913_s_JPP.mid\">Dark-Town_Cabaret &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Dark-Town_Cabaret_1913_s_JPP.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-6fd64163-6a20-4d70-a13e-adc30cefde7b\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">Lyrics<br><br>1. Emancipation day at the Darktown cabaret<br>Darkies congregate to celebrate this great occasion<br>Folks from everywhere, you will find them there<br>All the very swellest of the colored population<br>\"Hannah Snow\" \"Old Black Joe\" <br>Came from the \"Swanee Shore\"<br>Mammy did the \"Eagle Rock\"<br>And made the people roar<br>Soon there was a riot, no one could deny it<br>Everybody hollered \"more\"<br><br>Chorus:<br>\"Down in Georgia Lan\" with my \"Honey Man\"<br>He's my pride and joy, 'cause he's sure \"Some Boy\"<br>When the \"Jingle Bells\" began to ring<br>All the people started in to buck and wing<br>Then they called upon \"Alexander's Band\"<br>Soon we heard the strain of \"Old Dixieland\"<br>Everyone was gay on \"Emancipation Day\"<br>At the dark town Cabaret<br><br>2. Oh, everybody's dressed in their swellest and their best<br>Feet begin to shuffle when the music starts a swellin'<br>Pickaninnies file up and down the aisle<br>They would sooner dance than eat a juicy watermelon<br>See them scoot, shake the boot<br>Oh don't they do it nice<br>There's Ebenezer Johnson in the backroom shootin' dice<br>Come you old eleven, shoot that lucky seven<br>Glory this is worth the price<\/pre>\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 1913Words by Chas. Potter and Ferd. E. MierischMusic by Ed. Mobs The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics1. Emancipation day at the Darktown cabaretDarkies congregate to celebrate this great occasionFolks from everywhere, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/dark-town-cabaret\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dark-Town Cabaret&#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-5572","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-1rS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5572","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=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5575,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5572\/revisions\/5575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}