Down At Jasper Johnson's Jamboree 1914

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 18 Sep 2008
2008

Old Jasper Johnson,
a Kentucky colored moke,
said: "I'm goin' to give a picnic
to the colored folk,
It's just fifty years ago
we were set free.
So I'm goin' to celebrate it
with an old time Jamboree."
He invited all the colored girls and boys,
had a band of colored mokes.
Some noise.

Down at Jasper Johnson's Jamboree,
ev'rybody's happy,
happy as can be,
all the folks have just arrived
from Baltimore,
on train Number Four,
at eleven fortyfour,
None of these darkies do
the buck and wing,
they do the latest,
up to datest Tango swing,
There's Ebenezer with Anna Lize,
Just watch that baby roll her eyes,
hear those little pickaninnies
holler with glee,
Down at Jasper Johnson's Jamboree

Down at Jasper Johnson's Jamboree,
ev'rybody's happy,
happy as can be,
all the folks have just arrived
from Baltimore,
on train Number Four,
at eleven fortyfour,
None of these darkies do
the buck and wing,
they do the latest,
up to datest Tango swing,
There's Ebenezer with Anna Lize,
Just watch that baby roll her eyes,
hear those little pickaninnies
holler with glee,
Down at Jasper Johnson's Jamboree

Hear that band playing,
all the latest ragtime tunes,
see that March to dinner
by a lot of dusky coons,
Jasper Johnson's leading them,
Oh! he looks fine.
In the old high hat
the Marster gave him
back in Sixtynine.
"Hip, Hooray for old man Johnson,"
hear them cry.
As those darkies see that possum pie.

Down at Jasper Johnson's Jamboree,
ev'rybody's happy,
happy as can be,
all the folks have just arrived
from Baltimore,
on train Number Four,
at eleven fortyfour,
None of these darkies do
the buck and wing,
they do the latest,
up to datest Tango swing,
There's Ebenezer with Anna Lize,
Just watch that baby roll her eyes,
hear those little pickaninnies
holler with glee,
Down at Jasper Johnson's Jamboree

Down at Jasper Johnson's Jamboree,
ev'rybody's happy,
happy as can be,
all the folks have just arrived
from Baltimore,
on train Number Four,
at eleven fortyfour,
None of these darkies do
the buck and wing,
they do the latest,
up to datest Tango swing,
There's Ebenezer with Anna Lize,
Just watch that baby roll her eyes,
hear those little pickaninnies
holler with glee,
Down at Jasper Johnson's Jamboree...

Soft karaoke
Words
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lyric
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Down At Jasper Johnson's Jamboree 1914
Music by Verna Wilkens
Lyrics by Andrew K.Allison
© MCMXIV by F.B.Haviland Pub.Co.Inc. - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 18 September 2008 at 09.35
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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