{"id":890,"date":"2018-11-24T21:19:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T21:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=890"},"modified":"2023-05-20T12:13:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T12:13:03","slug":"coleville-coon-cadets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/coleville-coon-cadets\/","title":{"rendered":"Coleville Coon Cadets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">or &#8220;The Boys You Read About&#8221;<br>a red hot 1897 nigger march song<br>words by music by Harry Freeman<\/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\/2018\/11\/Coleville-Coon-Cadets.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Coleville Coon Cadets - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-dd53ae79-28dc-4ee9-b711-2aeaec20653d\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Coleville-Coon-Cadets.pdf\">Coleville Coon Cadets &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Coleville-Coon-Cadets.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-dd53ae79-28dc-4ee9-b711-2aeaec20653d\">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-e041f752-f3ce-4b12-a8b9-59333b7a8462\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/The_Coleville_Coon_Cadets_1897_s_JPP.mid\">The_Coleville_Coon_Cadets &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/The_Coleville_Coon_Cadets_1897_s_JPP.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-e041f752-f3ce-4b12-a8b9-59333b7a8462\">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. Have yo&#8217; done heard tell of the big black swells<br>Dat a come from Coleville town?<br>They are smooth, you bet, they are Coon Cadets<br>And they&#8217;re known for miles around<br>When they&#8217;re on the march, they are stiff as starch<br>Never look to the left or right<br>With their uniforms, they are very warm<br>You can bet they&#8217;re out of sight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marching, marching close in line<br>Perfect time, how they shine<br>Style and manners superfine<br>Look out! all shout! for the Coleville Coon Cadets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>When the moon shines bright in summer<br>Then the colored folks turn out<br>For the Coleville Coons are winners<br>They&#8217;re the boys you read about<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. At a dress parade or a masquerade<br>You will always find them there<br>With their guns so bright, they are out of sight<br>How de wenches at them stare<br>With their latest mash, don&#8217;t they cut a dash<br>When in style they all turn out<br>Oh! the hottest coons, seen for many moons<br>Are the boys you read about<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marching, marching close in line<br>Perfect time, how they shine<br>Style and manners superfine<br>Look out! all shout! for the Coleville Coon Cadets<\/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\/Coleville-Coon-Cadets.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] or &#8220;The Boys You Read About&#8221;a red hot 1897 nigger march songwords by music by Harry Freeman The sheet music: Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne: Lyrics 1. Have yo&#8217; done heard tell of the big black swellsDat a come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/coleville-coon-cadets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coleville Coon Cadets&#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-890","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-em","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/890\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}