When a Nigger Makes a Hundred Ninety-Nine Goes on His Back 1899

James Pitt-Payne, LOndon UK - 24 Nov 2004

I've no use for you, my honey,
for you haven't got no money,
what you doin' a hangin' 'roun
as if you were a millionaire?
All you think of now am dressin'
and you always keep me guessin'
does you think I'm goin' to stand it
and I'm goin' to live on air?
Then you come aroun' me blowin'
what you do when it am snowin'
I had lots of coons but for your sake
I gave 'em all the sack,
Now you haven't got a dollar
it's no wonder that I holler,
if a nigger makes a hundred
ninety nine goes on his back.

Oh, those clothes don't cut no figger,
with this child, you low down nigger,
what you do with all that money
you made toutin' 'round the track?
I don't see you 'till your busted,
with your conduct I'm disgusted
for when a nigger makes a hundred
ninety nine goes on his back.

Oh, those clothes don't cut no figger,
with this child, you low down nigger,
what you do with all that money
you made toutin' 'round the track?
I don't see you 'till your busted,
with your conduct I'm disgusted
for when a nigger makes a hundred
ninety nine goes on his back.

Den the lanlord giv's me warnin'
all my rings I've been a pawnin'
while you flash a bluff aroun' the house
and haven't got a cent,
you're all right you get your lodgin'
but I don't like this here dodgin'
when you decorate yourself
whose goin' to liquidate the rent?
Can't exist on nothin' honey,
an' I got to get some money,
while you're mashing all the coons
they think you am a crackajack,
but I know you for a bluffer
an' a low down yaller duffer,
when you makes another hundred,
ninety nine goes on my back.

Oh, those clothes don't cut no figger,
with this child, you low down nigger,
what you do with all that money
you made toutin' 'round the track?
I don't see you 'till your busted,
with your conduct I'm disgusted
for when a nigger makes a hundred
ninety nine goes on his back.

Oh, those clothes don't cut no figger,
with this child, you low down nigger,
what you do with all that money
you made toutin' 'round the track?
I don't see you 'till your busted,
with your conduct I'm disgusted
for when a nigger makes a hundred
ninety nine goes on his back.

Soft karaoke
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When a Nigger Makes a Hundred 1899
Ninety-Nine Goes on His Back
Song With Chorus in Cake Walk Tempo
Words by Chas. A. Wilson. Music by Leo. E. Berliner
© 1899 by Leo. E. Berliner, 42 West 28th St., N.Y.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 24 November 2004 at 00.17
in association with Doug Grierson
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