When Mister Shakespeare Comes To Town 1901 or "I Don't Like Them Minstrel Folks"

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 02 Mar 2007
2007

Bill Johnson said to Mandy Snow:
"Would you like to go to the Minstrel Show?"
And Mandy said: "Well, I don't know,"
with a mighty haughty air,
These Minstrel shows ain't got no sense,
it is just like wasting your fifty cents,
with such affairs they should dispense,
only common folks go there,
Bill Johnson he turned red:
"You're rather hightoned," he said,
"Perhaps I is, and be it so,
I doesn't have to go to a Minstrel show,"
cause

I don't like them Minstrel shows
and I doesn't care for the endmen's jokes,
I has no use for the musical mokes
and I don't like a circus clown,
Mister Johnson I'll tell you what to do,
Just save up your money,
ev'ry solitary sou,
and I'll promise like a lady
that I'll go along with you
when Mister Shakespeare comes to town.

I don't like them Minstrel shows
and I doesn't care for the endmen's jokes,
I has no use for the musical mokes
and I don't like a circus clown,
Mister Johnson I'll tell you what to do,
Just save up your money,
ev'ry solitary sou,
and I'll promise like a lady
that I'll go along with you
when Mister Shakespeare comes to town.

I likes that play they call MacBeth,
My brother, Seth, got scared to death,
it almost took away his breath,
and he fainted right on the floor,
and when that Shakespeare man comes 'round
you have got to chain me right to the ground,
right up in front I'm always found,
he's the man I does adore,
I likes a play that's good,
very fond of N. S. Wood.
So Mister Johnson save your dough
for a Shakespeare show and then I'll go,
cause

I don't like them Minstrel shows
and I doesn't care for the endmen's jokes,
I has no use for the musical mokes
and I don't like a circus clown,
Mister Johnson I'll tell you what to do,
Just save up your money,
ev'ry solitary sou,
and I'll promise like a lady
that I'll go along with you
when Mister Shakespeare comes to town.

I don't like them Minstrel shows
and I doesn't care for the endmen's jokes,
I has no use for the musical mokes
and I don't like a circus clown,
Mister Johnson I'll tell you what to do,
Just save up your money,
ev'ry solitary sou,
and I'll promise like a lady
that I'll go along with you
when Mister Shakespeare comes to town.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
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piano 3
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lyric
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When Mister Shakespeare Comes To Town 1901
or "I Don't Like Them Minstrel Folks"
Music by Jean Schwartz
Lyrics by Wm.Jerome
© MCMI by Howley, Haviland & Dresser
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 02 March 2007 at 2.18pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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