{"id":736,"date":"2018-09-13T20:27:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T20:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=736"},"modified":"2023-05-18T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T12:11:30","slug":"i-am-thinking-of-my-pickaninny-days","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/i-am-thinking-of-my-pickaninny-days\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Thinking of My Pickaninny Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: racial stereotypes. No hatred is intended. Presented in original form as a part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1901 popular song<br>words by Henry Jackson<br>music by Scott Joplin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\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\/2018\/09\/I-Am-Thinking-of-My-Pickaninny-Days.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of I Am Thinking of My Pickaninny Days - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-6f885c9a-98c0-4c1f-beb8-f27d987b95c4\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/I-Am-Thinking-of-My-Pickaninny-Days.pdf\">I Am Thinking of My Pickaninny Days &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/I-Am-Thinking-of-My-Pickaninny-Days.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-6f885c9a-98c0-4c1f-beb8-f27d987b95c4\">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:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-50638092-6d46-4190-8be3-391c7d65df18\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/I-Am-Thinking-of-My-Pickaninny-Days.mid\">I Am Thinking of My Pickaninny Days &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/I-Am-Thinking-of-My-Pickaninny-Days.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-50638092-6d46-4190-8be3-391c7d65df18\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. An old darkey lay a sleeping in his northern home one night<br>He was dreaming of the sunny south where first he saw the light<br>You could tell he was as happy as a bird up in a tree<br>By the smile so bright up on his face that you could plainly see<br>But when this darkey did awake and saw &#8217;twas all a dream<br>He called his little children to his side<br>And when they said &#8220;My daddy dear, what makes you look so pleased?&#8221;<br>These are the words to them he did reply<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>&#8220;I am thinking of my pickaninny days<br>And tonight my heart is filled with untold joy<br>They bring to me sweet mem&#8217;ries long gone bye<br>When I was a pickaninny boy<br>And could they but only come again<br>The Lord forever I will praise<br>Now that is why I look so pleased<br>I am thinking of my pickaninny days&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Since this darkey told of boyhood days, it has been many a year<br>And now the old man&#8217;s laid away his mem&#8217;ry still is here<br>His children now are grown in age and have pickanninies, too<br>Every evening when their work is o&#8217;er, they think of their father true<br>All are gathered &#8217;round the fireside now and talking of the past<br>And of their dad in Heaven far away<br>For when they sat at his bedside just as he breathed his last<br>These are the gentle words they heard him say<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sung here by Fred Feild:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/I-Am-Thinking-Of-My-Pickaninny-Days.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: racial stereotypes. No hatred is intended. Presented in original form as a part of music history.] a 1901 popular songwords by Henry Jacksonmusic by Scott Joplin &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; The sheet music: Accompaniment:\u00a0 Lyrics 1. An old darkey lay a sleeping in his northern home one nightHe was dreaming of the sunny south where first he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/i-am-thinking-of-my-pickaninny-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Am Thinking of My Pickaninny Days&#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-736","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-bS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/736\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}