{"id":998,"date":"2018-12-01T18:25:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T18:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=998"},"modified":"2023-05-22T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T12:35:11","slug":"keep-your-eye-on-your-friend-mister-johnson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/keep-your-eye-on-your-friend-mister-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Eye on Your Friend Mister Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: contains the N-word and other racial stereotypes. Original presented as part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1898 popular song<br>words by James T. Powers<br>music by Jackson Gouraud<\/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;&#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\/12\/Keep-Your-Eye-On-Your-Friend-Mister-Johnson.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Keep Your Eye On Your Friend Mister Johnson - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-2acfa649-c406-44e6-999c-663f7ea6b12d\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Keep-Your-Eye-On-Your-Friend-Mister-Johnson.pdf\">Keep Your Eye On Your Friend Mister Johnson &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Keep-Your-Eye-On-Your-Friend-Mister-Johnson.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-2acfa649-c406-44e6-999c-663f7ea6b12d\">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;&#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-a073642e-2004-4189-a551-ea4617f638b6\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Keep-Your-Eye-On-Your-Friend-Mister-Johnson-MIDI.mid\">Keep Your Eye On Your Friend Mister Johnson &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Keep-Your-Eye-On-Your-Friend-Mister-Johnson-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-a073642e-2004-4189-a551-ea4617f638b6\">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;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. I&#8217;ve got a little flat up town<br>And I live dere wid my wife<br>She is de sweetest little thing<br>You&#8217;d see in all your life<br>I took a friend to live with me<br>He is a colored gent<br>And dese words were whispered in my ears<br>&#8216;Most everywhere I went<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Keep your eye on your friend Mister Johnson<br>Keep your eye on your friend, hear me say<br>If you don&#8217;t he&#8217;ll steal your wife<br>And wreck a yaller nigger&#8217;s life<br>Look out for your friend Mister &#8220;J.&#8221; &#8220;J.&#8221; &#8220;J.&#8221; &#8220;J.&#8221;<br>Look out for your friend Mister Johnson<br>Keep your eye peeled on dat coon<br>If you don&#8217;t you will regret it<br>And you never will forget it<br>For he&#8217;s bound to do you soon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Dat made me quite suspicious<br>And I don&#8217;t know what to do<br>So, one day I sneaked to my flat<br>Into the door I flew<br>Dey both sat on de sofa wid<br>His arm around my Lize<br>Says he to me, &#8220;I&#8217;m glad yer came<br>She&#8217;s cinders in her eyes!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. I b&#8217;lieved dat man, what could I do<br>To dinner we did sit<br>And when she carves dat turkey<br>He&#8217;d get de nicest bit<br>She gives him all de stuffin&#8217; and<br>I wouldn&#8217;t get a speck<br>But delib&#8217;rately she&#8217;d carve dat bird<br>And gives to me de neck<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. I was feeling very saddened but<br>My friends dey say, &#8220;Be wise&#8221;<br>So I keeps my eye upon him<br>For I can&#8217;t accuse my Lize<br>De evidence I did obtain<br>De judge divorced me quick<br>Now dey both get alimony<br>Oh! dat law it makes me sick<\/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\/Keep-Your-Eye-On-Your-Friend-Mister-Johnson.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: contains the N-word and other racial stereotypes. Original presented as part of music history.] a 1898 popular songwords by James T. Powersmusic by Jackson Gouraud &#8212;&#8212;&#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;&#8212;&#8211; Accompaniment: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Lyrics 1. I&#8217;ve got a little flat up townAnd I live dere wid my wifeShe is de sweetest little thingYou&#8217;d see in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/keep-your-eye-on-your-friend-mister-johnson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keep Your Eye on Your Friend Mister Johnson&#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-998","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-g6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4052,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/998\/revisions\/4052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}