Syncopated Sandy 1898

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 10 Jun 2009
2009

There's a hightone colored gent,
a coon without a cent,
His cash for clothes he spent,
to outshine all coons he meant,
He's the swellest thing
that walks Broadway,
the fo'hundred
they ain't half so gay,
They always turn their heads his way,
and this is what they say:

Syncopated Sandy,
the darktown dandy,
a happy and contented coon,
without a care or strife,
as swell as he can be,
the best we ever see,
a coon that leads
a really reckless life.

Syncopated Sandy,
the darktown dandy,
a happy and contented coon,
without a care or strife,
as swell as he can be,
the best we ever see,
a coon that leads
a really reckless life.

On a night way late last Fall,
The coons they hired a hall,
and gave a fancy ball.
There were niggers short and tall,
the cake walk there that night
was led by a dead swell coon
with stately tread,
when the judges their decision read,
these were the words they said:

Syncopated Sandy,
the darktown dandy,
a happy and contented coon,
without a care or strife,
as swell as he can be,
the best we ever see,
a coon that leads
a really reckless life.

Syncopated Sandy,
the darktown dandy,
a happy and contented coon,
without a care or strife,
as swell as he can be,
the best we ever see,
a coon that leads
a really reckless life.

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Syncopated Sandy 1898
by Ned Wayburn & Stanley Whiting
© 1897 by Broder & Schlam
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 10 June 2009 at 16.21
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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