{"id":752,"date":"2018-09-13T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=752"},"modified":"2023-05-18T12:28:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T12:28:48","slug":"i-guess-that-will-hold-you-for-awhile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/i-guess-that-will-hold-you-for-awhile\/","title":{"rendered":"I Guess That Will Hold You For Awhile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: racial stereotypes, contains the N-word. Original presented as part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A darkey warning, 1897<br>words and music by Smart and Williams<br>arranged by Fred S. Rounds<\/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\">The sheet music:\u00a0<\/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-That-Will-Hold-You-For-Awhile.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of I Guess That Will Hold You For Awhile - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-910bd7e7-1905-4a7f-80ae-d70866ec1654\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/I-Guess-That-Will-Hold-You-For-Awhile.pdf\">I Guess That Will Hold You For Awhile &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/I-Guess-That-Will-Hold-You-For-Awhile.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-910bd7e7-1905-4a7f-80ae-d70866ec1654\">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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9a23fb2b-6b68-481e-98d0-d30e1ab89113\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/I-Guess-That-Will-Hold-You-For-Awhile.mid\">I Guess That Will Hold You For Awhile &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/I-Guess-That-Will-Hold-You-For-Awhile.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9a23fb2b-6b68-481e-98d0-d30e1ab89113\">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. The coons in this town they&#8217;re all gone wild<br>&#8216;Bout this black gal of mine<br>She&#8217;s black I know but she gets the dough<br>And she spends it all the time<br>Last night you see this gal caught me<br>With a yaller gal called &#8220;Eve&#8221;<br>&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you now I won&#8217;t start no row<br>But nigger you&#8217;ve got to leave&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>&#8220;So, I guess that will hold you for awhile<br>I&#8217;m tired of all that &#8220;con&#8221; that same old smile<br>There&#8217;s no need to weep, there&#8217;s no need to moan<br>&#8216;Cause nigger, when I leave you&#8217;ve lost a good home<br>So I guess that will hold you for awhile&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. She gave me the sack, I asked her to come back<br>But she wouldn&#8217;t listen to my song<br>She took my diamond ring and all my things<br>And put them all in pawn<br>That made me mad and I got bad<br>I went to her home that day<br>But there stood her man with a razor in his hand<br>And to me then she did say<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>&#8220;Well, I guess that will hold you for awhile<br>I&#8217;m tired of all that &#8220;con&#8221; that same old smile<br>I thought at first that you were true<br>But I&#8217;ve got a man just as warm as you<br>So I guess that will hold you for awhile&#8221;<\/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-That-Will-Hold-You-For-A-While.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: racial stereotypes, contains the N-word. Original presented as part of music history.] A darkey warning, 1897words and music by Smart and Williamsarranged by Fred S. Rounds &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- The sheet music:\u00a0 Accompaniment: Lyrics 1. The coons in this town they&#8217;re all gone wild&#8216;Bout this black gal of mineShe&#8217;s black I know but she gets the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/i-guess-that-will-hold-you-for-awhile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Guess That Will Hold You For Awhile&#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-752","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-c8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/752","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=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/752\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}