{"id":748,"date":"2018-09-13T20:37:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=748"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:23:15","slug":"i-guess-ill-have-to-telegraph-my-baby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/i-guess-ill-have-to-telegraph-my-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"I Guess I&#8217;ll Have To Telegraph My Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: racial stereotypes. These lyrics do not represent Sheet Music Singer&#8217;s attitude. This song is presented in its original form as a part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An 1898 popular song<br>Words and music by George M. Cohan<\/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;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheet music:&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/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-Guess-Ill-Have-To-Telegraph-My-Baby.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of I Guess I&apos;ll Have To Telegraph My Baby - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1b7d5462-2904-4238-b188-e20669b7a3d1\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/I-Guess-Ill-Have-To-Telegraph-My-Baby.pdf\">I Guess I&#8217;ll Have To Telegraph My Baby &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/I-Guess-Ill-Have-To-Telegraph-My-Baby.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1b7d5462-2904-4238-b188-e20669b7a3d1\">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-3eaea208-4042-4238-9171-92edebca4cf9\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/I_Guess_Ill_Have_To_Telegraph_My_Baby_1898.mid\">I_Guess_Ill_Have_To_Telegraph_My_Baby &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/I_Guess_Ill_Have_To_Telegraph_My_Baby_1898.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-3eaea208-4042-4238-9171-92edebca4cf9\">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 Fred Feild:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-616d9ca8-6646-4328-bf93-1710e7842bc1\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/I-Guess-Ill-Have-To-Telegraph-My-Baby.mid\">I Guess I&#8217;ll Have To Telegraph My Baby &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/I-Guess-Ill-Have-To-Telegraph-My-Baby.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-616d9ca8-6646-4328-bf93-1710e7842bc1\">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. A coon he left his happy home<br>To go upon the stage<br>He joined a colored minstrel troupe<br>He thought he&#8217;d be the rage<br>He left the nicest little gal in Memphis Tennessee<br>And just because an actor man dis coon desired to be<br>He thought he was a corker, dat Williams and Walker<br>Would soon have to take off their hats and salaam<br>In a town they landed, troupe disbanded<br>Coons all stranded, empty handed<br>Big black actor said to him<br>&#8220;What will you do now Sam?&#8221;<br>He sighed and cried and then he replied<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Well I guess I&#8217;ll have to telegraph my baby<br>I need the money bad, indeed I do<br>For Lucy is a very gen&#8217;rous lady<br>I can always touch her for a few<br>I find the Western Union a convenience<br>No matter where I roam<br>I&#8217;ll telegraph my baby, she&#8217;ll send ten or twenty maybe<br>Then I won&#8217;t have to walk back home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. He telegraphed and waited for an answer all in vain<br>He didn&#8217;t get no reply at all, the coon near went insane<br>He tried to jump his hotel bill<br>The landlord had him clinched<br>The bellboy got the Sheriff<br>And they had dis darkey pinched<br>In a cell he was a-walkin&#8217;, to himself he was a-talkin&#8217;<br>Said he, &#8220;No more troupin&#8217; or travellin&#8217; in mine&#8221;<br>Before the judge he had to trudge<br>He didn&#8217;t budge, the landlord&#8217;s grudge<br>Brought sentence for two years in jail<br>Or twenty dollars fine<br>He sighed and cried and then he replied<\/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-Guess-Ill-Have-To-Telegraph-My-Baby.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: racial stereotypes. These lyrics do not represent Sheet Music Singer&#8217;s attitude. This song is presented in its original form as a part of music history.] An 1898 popular songWords and music by George M. Cohan &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; The sheet music:&nbsp;&nbsp; Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Accompaniment by Fred Feild:\u00a0 Lyrics 1. A coon he left his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/i-guess-ill-have-to-telegraph-my-baby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Guess I&#8217;ll Have To Telegraph My Baby&#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-748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-c4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5424,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748\/revisions\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}