Take Your Clothes And Go 1897

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 15 Jul 2005

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 tried 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 tried 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 tried 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 tried 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
A Genuine "Rag Time" Coon Oddity
Words and Music by Irving Jones
Sung With Unbounded Success By Geo. Wilson
of Primrose and West's Minstrels, Lew Dockstader,
Irving Jones, Billy Farrel, Johnson and Dean,
and Other Well known Vocalists
© 1897 by Jos. W. Stern & Co., 45 East 20th St., N.Y.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 15 July 2005 at 13.29
in association with Doug Grierson
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