Coon! Coon! Coon! 1900

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 4 Feb 2009
2009

Although it's not my color
I'm feeling mighty blue,
I've got a lot of trouble
I'll tell it all to you.
I'm cert'nly clean disgusted
with life, and that's a fact,
Because my hair is woolly
and because my color's black.
My gal, she took a notion
againt the colored race,
She said if I would win her
I'd have to change my face,
She said if she would wed me
that she'd regret it soon,
and now I'm shook,
yes, good and hard
because I am a coon.

Coon! Coon! Coon!
I wish my color would fade
Coon! Coon! Coon!
I'd like a diff'rent shade
Coon! Coon! Coon!
Morning night and noon
I wish I was a white man
'stead of a
Coon! Coon! Coon!

Coon! Coon! Coon!
I wish my color would fade
Coon! Coon! Coon!
I'd like a diff'rent shade
Coon! Coon! Coon!
Morning night and noon
I wish I was a white man
'stead of a
Coon! Coon! Coon!

I had my face enameled
I had my hair made straight
I dressed up like a white man
and cert'nly did look great,
Then started out to see her
just shortly after dark,
But on the way to meet my babe
I had to cross a park,
Just as I was a thinking
I had things fixed up right,
I passed a tree where two doves
sat making love at night,
They stopped and looked me over
I saw my finish soon,
When both those birds said
good and loud
Cooooooooooon!

Coon! Coon! Coon!
I wish my color would fade
Coon! Coon! Coon!
I'd like a diff'rent shade
Coon! Coon! Coon!
Morning night and noon
I wish I was a white man
'stead of a
Coon! Coon! Coon!

Coon! Coon! Coon!
I wish my color would fade
Coon! Coon! Coon!
I'd like a diff'rent shade
Coon! Coon! Coon!
Morning night and noon
I wish I was a white man
'stead of a
Coon! Coon! Coon!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Coon! Coon! Coon! 1900
Music by Leo Friedman
Lyrics by Gene Jefferson
© MDCCC by Sol Bloom
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 4 February 2009 at 11.22
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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