Dem White Pants 1901

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 17 Jul 2008
2008

Missus Jackson gave a ball,
grand cake walk and tea,
admission it was forty cents,
she'd check your razor free:
The tickets all read: "Full dress!"
at the door there was a fight,
for a coon with a big black swallow tail,
came in with trousers white,
They all cried: "My! go bar him out!"
Den they told some awful tales
and said, it was the latest style
worn by The Prince of Wales.

Missus Jackson walked like this
Mister Johnson gave the Memphis Twist!
Then they walked the floor together
O those dresses raised such talk,
the only thing to mar the pleasure,
was dem white pants at a swell cake walk!

A committee waited on him,
said: "Those pants must go!"
They offered back his forty cents,
that nigger he said: "No!"
Said he: "I'll run this ball, you bet,
those pants have come to stay!"
Then he pulled out his carver
and the band commenced to play.
"Throw him down, McCloskey!"
Dat time it meant a fight,
and when they finished with that coon
those trousers wasn't white.

Missus Jackson walked like this
Mister Johnson gave the Memphis Twist!
Then they walked the floor together
O those dresses raised such talk,
the only thing to mar the pleasure,
was dem white pants at a swell cake walk!

Soft karaoke
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lyric
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Dem White Pants 1901
Music by Max Dreyfus
Lyrics by James T.Powers
© MCMI by T.B.Harms & Co.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 17 July 2008 at 13.21
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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