Sue Sue Sue 1908 GH Elliott

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 14 Feb 2007
2007

He was the same old lovesick coon
who sang of his dusky queen,
she was a brighteyed octaroon
the sweetest girl I'd seen.
He met Sue in the afternoon
never came out at night
and to show that a coon
could dispense with the moon,
he sang in the bright sunlight:

Sue, Sue, Sue,
I am very much in love with you.
Sue, Sue, Sue,
when your pretty little eyes
of blue are shining,
Few, few, few
little girls are as nice as you.
We will never, never part,
for your loving little heart
I sue, sue, sue.

Sue, Sue, Sue,
I am very much in love with you.
Sue, Sue, Sue,
when your pretty little eyes
of blue are shining,
Few, few, few
little girls are as nice as you.
We will never, never part,
for your loving little heart
I sue, sue, sue.

A matinee mash just suited Sue;
she could sport her latest gown,
the envy of all the girls she knew;
as she strolled thro' Coonville Town.
Then on the lake, in a little canoe,
lazily floating along,
he to his Sue lovevows would renew,
and sing her the same old song:

Sue, Sue, Sue,
I am very much in love with you.
Sue, Sue, Sue,
when your pretty little eyes
of blue are shining,
Few, few, few
little girls are as nice as you.
We will never, never part,
for your loving little heart
I sue, sue, sue.

Sue, Sue, Sue,
I am very much in love with you.
Sue, Sue, Sue,
when your pretty little eyes
of blue are shining,
Few, few, few
little girls are as nice as you.
We will never, never part,
for your loving little heart
I sue, sue, sue.

True love never runs smooth they say
which Jim soon found was right,
for though he smiled on Sue each day
another coon smiled at night.
The new coon wooed in the old sweet way,
with the help of his friend the moon,
won her heart right away
with the oldfashioned lay,
and same old dreamy tune:

Sue, Sue, Sue,
I am very much in love with you.
Sue, Sue, Sue,
when your pretty little eyes
of blue are shining,
Few, few, few
little girls are as nice as you.
We will never, never part,
for your loving little heart
I sue, sue, sue.

Sue, Sue, Sue,
I am very much in love with you.
Sue, Sue, Sue,
when your pretty little eyes
of blue are shining,
Few, few, few
little girls are as nice as you.
We will never, never part,
for your loving little heart
I sue, sue, sue.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Sue Sue Sue 1908 GH Elliott
Music by Hermann E.Darewski Jun.
Lyrics by Lester Barrett
© 1908 by Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd.  London
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 14 February 2007 at 12.36pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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"G.H. Elliott was one of Britain's best-loved blackface entertainers
in the days before such things became unthinkable. He was, like
Gracie Fields, born in Rochdale, Lancashire, and as a child was
taken to the United States, where he learned his craft with the
Primrose West Minstrels (Gammond 1991, 176). He was elegant
and sophisticated - Peter Honri (1974, 20) relates that, in
blacking up, he always used champagne corks. Music Hall
historian W. Macqueen-Pope (1950, 163) calls him 'the nearest
approach to the wonderful Eugene Stratton the Halls ever knew'
(although S. Theodore Felstead accords that accolade to another
blackface performer, Dubliner Tom E. Finglass). Among the songs
particularly associated with him are Idaho, I Used To Sigh For The
Silvery Moon, and Sue, Sue, Sue. Elliott's long career carried him
well into the 1940s." He died in 1962.
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