{"id":930,"date":"2018-11-29T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=930"},"modified":"2023-05-21T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T12:48:20","slug":"ive-got-de-blues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/ive-got-de-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Got de Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: racial stereotypes. Sheet music singer does not condone hatred or racism. It is being presented in its original published form to document musical history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1901 popular song<br>words and music by Smith &amp; Bowman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A rare, early song with &#8216;Blues&#8217; in the title. The only source I find for it is the Beale Street and Other Classic Blues book.<\/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\/11\/Ive-Got-de-Blues.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of I&apos;ve Got de Blues - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-e06b7233-97e5-4485-b27f-77f93cc2d29c\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ive-Got-de-Blues.pdf\">I&#8217;ve Got de Blues &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ive-Got-de-Blues.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-e06b7233-97e5-4485-b27f-77f93cc2d29c\">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;&#8211;<\/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-d490ede4-2bdd-4665-94e8-7af41d04c374\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ive-Got-de-Blues-MIDI.mid\">I&#8217;ve Got de Blues &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ive-Got-de-Blues-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d490ede4-2bdd-4665-94e8-7af41d04c374\">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;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Big Sam Johnson was a popular man<br>Among Darktown&#8217;s elite<br>They made him toastmaster at every affair<br>&#8216;Cause his speeches were cert&#8217;ny a treat<br>He took his Liza to a banquet last night<br>As he rose to speak he spied<br>His rival and his Lize, both a-making goo goo eyes<br>Then poor Sam forgot his toast and sadly sighed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>I&#8217;ve got de blues, I beg to be excused<br>My heart is breaking and my head is aching<br>That is just why I refuse<br>I&#8217;m all confused, ma gal I &#8216;spects to lose<br>I can&#8217;t make no toast tonight<br>Because I&#8217;ve got de blues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Sam thought he&#8217;d take Liza to a coon show<br>He started out to walk<br>He wore a very loud suit of clothes<br>It was really quite loud &#8217;nuff to talk<br>He sat a moment on a bench in the park<br>It had just been painted blue<br>His blood in anger boiled<br>When he saw his clothes were spoiled<br>And to moan these words was all that he could do<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>I&#8217;ve got de blues, I beg to be excused<br>My heart is breaking and my head is aching<br>That is just why I refuse<br>I&#8217;m all confused, my clothes have been abused<br>I can&#8217;t see no show tonight<br>Because I&#8217;ve got de blues<\/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\/Ive-Got-de-Blues.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: racial stereotypes. Sheet music singer does not condone hatred or racism. It is being presented in its original published form to document musical history.] a 1901 popular songwords and music by Smith &amp; Bowman A rare, early song with &#8216;Blues&#8217; in the title. The only source I find for it is the Beale Street &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/ive-got-de-blues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;ve Got de Blues&#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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-930","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-f0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4033,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/930\/revisions\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}