{"id":5756,"date":"2026-10-02T15:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=5756"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:27:17","slug":"that-aint-no-talk-to-give-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/that-aint-no-talk-to-give-me\/","title":{"rendered":"That Ain&#8217;t No Talk To Give Me"},"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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An &#8220;ultra&#8221; dark town hit from 1899<br>Words and music by Smart &amp; Williams<\/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\/2026\/10\/That-Aint-No-Talk-To-Give-Me-1899.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of That Ain&apos;t No Talk To Give Me - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a92614e7-bd9d-4c3d-b15b-e98f106b7e4f\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/That-Aint-No-Talk-To-Give-Me-1899.pdf\">That Ain&#8217;t No Talk To Give Me &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/That-Aint-No-Talk-To-Give-Me-1899.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-a92614e7-bd9d-4c3d-b15b-e98f106b7e4f\">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<br><br>1. The coons they gave a festival the other night<br>They asked me down because they knew that I was right<br>With my forty dollar suit on and my diamond pin<br>You ought to see them wenches smile when I came in<br>The gals they swarmed around me so fast and thick<br>Of course you know I naturally had to take my pick<br>I choosed the prettiest yaller gal that was in the crowd<br>I took this gal I started down to tea<br>When a big black burly grabbed a hold of me<br>He says, &#8220;I guess you better let that lady be<br>If you don&#8217;t I will fill you full of misery&#8221;<br>I struck at this coon but he dodged the blow<br>He kicked me on the shins and I struck the floor<br>With tears in my eyes I tried to pologize<br>But this is what the coon did say<br><br>Chorus:<br>&#8220;That ain&#8217;t no talk to give me, Mister Nigger<br>That ain&#8217;t no talk to give me<br>I know you are a bad coon from Chicago<br>But I&#8217;m from Tennessee<br>There&#8217;s no need of cryin&#8217;<br>That gal&#8217;s mine, I won&#8217;t accept that &#8216;pology<br>Cause when you try to &#8220;con&#8221; me out of my best gal<br>Why that ain&#8217;t no talk to give me&#8221;<br><br>2. I was very much insulted over that affair<br>Because I was considered a black millionaire<br>I went to this gal&#8217;s house&#8217; cause she had done me wrong<br>In the hallway stood this nigger with his habits on<br>I invited him out in the yard to fight<br>Because I didn&#8217;t kind a think he&#8217;d been treating me right<br>I took an oath I was going to kill him on the spot<br>He stood upon his dig, and said &#8220;take a stroll<br>You&#8217;re standing in my light and your acting too bold&#8221;<br>My temper then I couldn&#8217;t control<br>The way that I was treated was awfully cold<br>I swelled up like a frog and the language I used<br>Will never be published in the Daily News<br>This coon commenced to frown when I called him down<br>And this was his reply<\/p>\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.] An &#8220;ultra&#8221; dark town hit from 1899Words and music by Smart &amp; Williams The sheet music Lyrics 1. The coons they gave a festival the other nightThey asked me down because they knew that I was rightWith my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/that-aint-no-talk-to-give-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That Ain&#8217;t No Talk To Give Me&#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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5756","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-1uQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5756","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=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5758,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5756\/revisions\/5758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}