{"id":914,"date":"2018-11-29T19:03:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=914"},"modified":"2023-05-20T12:38:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T12:38:05","slug":"im-goin-to-live-anyhow-till-i-die","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/im-goin-to-live-anyhow-till-i-die\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Goin&#8217; To Live Anyhow Till I Die"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: racial stereotypes. Original is being presented as part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1901 popular song<br>words and music by Shepard N. Edmonds<\/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\/11\/Im-Goin-To-Live-Anyhow-Till-I-Die.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of I&apos;m Goin&apos; To Live Anyhow Till I Die - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9c31632b-ec9c-44d1-84e8-e9a6e4855083\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Im-Goin-To-Live-Anyhow-Till-I-Die.pdf\">I&#8217;m Goin&#8217; To Live Anyhow Till I Die &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Im-Goin-To-Live-Anyhow-Till-I-Die.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9c31632b-ec9c-44d1-84e8-e9a6e4855083\">Download<\/a><\/div>\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\">Accompaniment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-329b0bca-aa03-432e-8657-6c78176e842e\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Im-Goin-To-Live-Anyhow-Till-I-Die-MIDI.mid\">I&#8217;m Goin&#8217; To Live Anyhow Till I Die &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Im-Goin-To-Live-Anyhow-Till-I-Die-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-329b0bca-aa03-432e-8657-6c78176e842e\">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. Now there&#8217;s a coon down in Tennessee<br>Who is as quaint as he can be<br>He never b&#8217;lieves in &#8216;tendin&#8217; church<br>Nor goin&#8217; to Sunday school<br>So all the people for him prayed<br>And all the good things &#8217;bout him said<br>But he believed in superstition as a rule<br>He believed in social strife<br>And hav&#8217;n a good time all his life<br>And to be so wicked he seemed not afraid<br>They knew he couldn&#8217;t live very long<br>So when they asked him to reform<br>He nearly broke dat congregation when he said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>I&#8217;m goin&#8217; to live anyhow, till I die<br>I knows ma&#8217; kind of a life ain&#8217;t very high<br>With sticks and stones a you can break a ma bones<br>You may talk all you want to &#8217;bout me when I&#8217;m gone<br>But I&#8217;m goin&#8217; to live anyhow, till I die<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. When he&#8217;d decided to reform<br>He started off to church one morn<br>And he was togged up in his best<br>And out on goodness bent<br>He thought he&#8217;d be a real good coon<br>And be a Blackville Deacon soon<br>But much to his surprise they had an accident<br>You see the choir refused to sing<br>Because the church bell wouldn&#8217;t ring<br>Then this coon became suspicious and afraid<br>He says, &#8220;The good folks I can&#8217;t see<br>If dat&#8217;s religion, excuse me&#8221;<br>And as he left, these are the words<br>They heard him say<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>I&#8217;m goin&#8217; to live anyhow till I die<br>I knows ma&#8217; kind of a life ain&#8217;t very high<br>Now it&#8217;s a fact and it is often said<br>That when you die you are a long time dead<br>But I&#8217;m goin&#8217; to live anyhow, till I die<\/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\/Im-Goin-To-Live-Anyhow-Till-I-Die.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: racial stereotypes. Original is being presented as part of music history.] a 1901 popular songwords and music by Shepard N. Edmonds &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; The sheet music: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Accompaniment: Lyrics 1. Now there&#8217;s a coon down in TennesseeWho is as quaint as he can beHe never b&#8217;lieves in &#8216;tendin&#8217; churchNor goin&#8217; to Sunday schoolSo all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/im-goin-to-live-anyhow-till-i-die\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m Goin&#8217; To Live Anyhow Till I Die&#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-914","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-eK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/914","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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/914\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}