{"id":784,"date":"2018-10-26T22:13:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T22:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=784"},"modified":"2023-05-19T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T11:17:59","slug":"i-wonder-what-is-that-coons-game","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/i-wonder-what-is-that-coons-game\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder What is That Coon&#8217;s Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: racial stereotypes. Original presented as part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1893 popular song<br>words and music by Bob Cole and Billy Johnson<\/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;&#8212;<\/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\/10\/I-Wonder-What-is-That-Coons-Game.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of I Wonder What is That Coon&apos;s Game - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b754abd7-1572-41ba-b3db-b3bb1c44b82c\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/I-Wonder-What-is-That-Coons-Game.pdf\">I Wonder What is That Coon&#8217;s Game &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/I-Wonder-What-is-That-Coons-Game.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b754abd7-1572-41ba-b3db-b3bb1c44b82c\">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-d7d4bf31-a1a6-4480-a5b1-de2ed3457cef\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/I-Wonder-What-is-That-Coons-Game.mid\">I Wonder What is That Coon&#8217;s Game &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/I-Wonder-What-is-That-Coons-Game.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d7d4bf31-a1a6-4480-a5b1-de2ed3457cef\">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. Ev&#8217;ry coon in Coontown&#8217;s feeling might funny<br>&#8216;Bout a strange yaller coon with an aweful lot of money<br>He struck the town just a week ago tomorrow<br>Now ev&#8217;ry darkey&#8217;s head&#8217;s bowed down in sorrow<br>There&#8217;s some kind of mystery attached to him<br>&#8216;Kase he always dresses so neat and trim<br>With his patent leather shoes and high silk hat<br>And diamonds all over his silk cravat<br>Has a face like a preacher he never smiles<br>Though he&#8217;s all dressed up in the gambler style<br>He ain&#8217;t tipped his hand yet in the town<br>So every coon&#8217;s crazy and whispering around<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>I wonder what is that coon&#8217;s game<br>The way he spends money it is a shame<br>Is he from Klondike or from Maine<br>Is what I&#8217;d like to know<br>I&#8217;m worried about him I must admit<br>With the yaller gals he&#8217;s made an awful hit<br>I wonder what is that coon&#8217;s game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. This coon rides a wheel with pearl and diamond setting<br>And at no kind of game he was ever seen a-betting<br>Every other coon in town&#8217;s got a mighty bitter feeling<br>So they whispered to the police, they thought he was a-stealin&#8217;<br>He was locked up on suspicion &#8217;bout nine at night<br>And the coons held a meeting with great delight<br>Every darkey went to court next morning soon<br>To see what they&#8217;d do with that mysterious coon<br>Judge said a hundred dollars and the coons dropped dead<br>When this darkey sprung a roll of money big as your head<br>He put on his kid gloves, started for the door<br>Everybody in the courtroom began to roar<\/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-Wonder-What-Is-That-Coons-Game.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: racial stereotypes. Original presented as part of music history.] a 1893 popular songwords and music by Bob Cole and Billy Johnson &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; The sheet music: Accompaniment: Lyrics 1. Ev&#8217;ry coon in Coontown&#8217;s feeling might funny&#8216;Bout a strange yaller coon with an aweful lot of moneyHe struck the town just a week ago tomorrowNow ev&#8217;ry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/i-wonder-what-is-that-coons-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Wonder What is That Coon&#8217;s Game&#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-784","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-cE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/784\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}