Cupid Might Have Been A Little Coon 1901 "The Explorers"

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 24 Feb 2007
2007

The busy bee of joyous June
improves each shining hour,
he dips his little honeyspoon
in ev'ry yielding flow'r;
he sips from yellow, sips from white,
no chaliced sweet declines,
It's all the same in his sweet game
he draws no colour lines.

For honey is sweet,
sweet, wild or tame,
dark is sweeter, so dark folk claim,
but honey is honey,
honey just the same,
according to the busy bee of June
and Cupid is colour blind,
so they say
doesn't know white from black or grey.
For all we know to the contrary.
Cupid might have been a little coon.

For Cupid is sweet,
sweet wild or tame
dark is sweeter, so dark folk claim,
but honey, is honey,
honey just the same
according to the busy bee of June.
And cupid is colour blind
so they say
doesn't know white from black or grey
For all we know to the contrary
Cupid might have been a little coon.

Oh! colour's but a fleeting show,
for colour comes and goes,
the bee is not attracted by
the blush upon the rose.
With busy little honey spoon
the honey cell he mines,
from lip to lip he goes to sip,
and draws no colour lines.

For honey is sweet,
sweet, wild or tame,
dark is sweeter, so dark folk claim,
but honey is honey,
honey just the same,
according to the busy bee of June
and Cupid is colour blind,
so they say
doesn't know white from black or grey.
For all we know to the contrary.
Cupid might have been a little coon.

For Cupid is sweet,
sweet wild or tame
dark is sweeter, so dark folk claim,
but honey, is honey,
honey just the same
according to the busy bee of June.
And cupid is colour blind
so they say
doesn't know white from black or grey
For all we know to the contrary
Cupid might have been a little coon.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Cupid Might Have Been A Little Coon 1901
from "The Explorers"
Music by Walter H.Lewis
Lyrics by Bert Leston Taylor
© MCMI by M. Witmark & Sons
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 24 February 2007 at 11.16am
in association with Doug Grierson
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