Take Your Clothes And Go 1897

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26 Mar 2007
2007

A big black burly coon
and his yaller wife,
done had a fallin' out.
'Cause the yaller gal
called the big black coon
a lazy roustabout!
Then this coon got raving mad
she said: "Nig, now don't get bad,
for an ambulance will carry you away!
Out in the wide wide world tonight
you will have to roam,
so make preparations
for to hunt yourself up
a brand new home!
You redeye, bluegum, flatfoot moke,
you never have a cent,
you're always broke,
and now these words this gal to you must say.

Leave this house
when you get your trunk packed,
I don't want you to never come back,
you may think I'm a treating you mean,
but I'm tired of living on pork and beans,
you may be warm but I don't know,
you ain't so warm that you melt the snow,
all this lovin' furniture
is in my name,
so take your clothes and go!

Leave this house
when you get your trunk packed,
I don't want you to never come back,
you may think I'm a treating you mean,
but I'm tired of living on pork and beans,
you may be warm but I don't know,
you ain't so warm that you melt the snow,
all this lovin' furniture
is in my name,
so take your clothes and go!

Now babe, don't drive me way, honey,
let me stay around here until Spring;
Ev'ry dollar that I make
that I scrape and rake,
straight home to you I'll bring.
I'll shovel coal
and cut up wood,
let me stay babe and I'll be good,
give me one more chance, don't put me out!
No, no coon, there's no use for you
to weep and wail
for if you start anything
I'm goin' to have you landed safe in jail!
So don't you sing me no con song
'cause you know, babe,
you done did me wrong,
and that's the reason
to you I'm goin' to shout...

Leave this house
when you get your trunk packed,
I don't want you to never come back,
you may think I'm a treating you mean,
but I'm tired of living on pork and beans,
you may be warm but I don't know,
you ain't so warm that you melt the snow,
all this lovin' furniture
is in my name,
so take your clothes and go!

Leave this house
when you get your trunk packed,
I don't want you to never come back,
you may think I'm a treating you mean,
but I'm tired of living on pork and beans,
you may be warm but I don't know,
you ain't so warm that you melt the snow,
all this lovin' furniture
is in my name,
so take your clothes and go!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Take Your Clothes And Go 1897
Words & Music by Irving Jones
© 1897 by Jos.W.Stern & Co.
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Sung with unbounded success by Geo Wilson of
Primrose and West's Minstrels and Lew Bochstader
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 26 March 2007 at 12.04am
in association with Doug Grierson
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