All Coons Look Alike To Me 1896

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 29 Mar 2007
2007

Talk about a coon a having trouble
I think I have enough of ma own
It's all about ma Lucy Janey Stubbles
And she has caused my heart to mourn
Thar's another coon barber from Virginia
In soci'ty he’s the leader of the day
And now ma honey gal is gwine to quit me
Yes she's gone and drove this coon away
She'd no excuse to turn me loose
I've been abused, I'm all confused
Cause these words she did say

All coons look alike to me
I've got another beau, you see
And he's just as good to me as you, nig!
Ever tried to be
He spends his money free,
I know we can't agree
So I don't like you no how
All coons look alike to me

All coons look alike to me
I've got another beau, you see
And he's just as good to me as you, nig!
Ever tried to be
He spends his money free,
I know we can't agree
So I don't like you no how
All coons look alike to me

Never said a word to hurt her feelings
I always bou't her presents by the score
And now my brain with sorrow am a reeling
Cause she won't accept them any more
If I treated her wrong she may have loved me
Like all the rest she's gone and let me down
If I'm lucky I'm a gwine to catch my policy
And win my sweet thing way from town
For I'm worried, yes, I'm desp'rate
I've been Jonahed, and I'll get dang'rous
If these words she says to me

All coons look alike to me
I've got another beau, you see
And he's just as good to me as you, nig!
Ever tried to be
He spends his money free,
I know we can't agree
So I don't like you no how
All coons look alike to me

All coons look alike to me
I've got another beau, you see
And he's just as good to me as you, nig!
Ever tried to be
He spends his money free,
I know we can't agree
So I don't like you no how
All coons look alike to me

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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All Coons Look Alike To Me 1896
Words & Music by Ernest Hogan
© 1896 by M.Witmark & Sons
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further information to be found at:
http://www.parlorsongs.com/insearch/coonsongs/coonsongs.asp
http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.100010769/default.html
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/LetItResound/art_rmt_hogan_e.html
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 29 March 2007 at 9.58am
in association with Doug Grierson
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