When Sousa Comes To Coon-town 1902

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 6 Jun 2008
2008

Look here folks have you heard
the news that's floating all around.
Mister Phillipine Sousa's big brass band
is going to march straight thro' our town,
and they ain't going to play
no overtures from "William Tell"
They ain't going to play no "Stars and Stripes"
nor the song called "Liberty Bell"
But Jasper Green wrote a ragtime march
with words and music too.
Mister Sousa gets the music
but all the words were made for you.
So ev'rybody learn this chorus
old folks and young ones too,
and sing as you never sang before,
when Sousa marches through.

We all loves a brass band
and we'll march throughout the land,
Each one joining hand in hand,
always when the band plays,
Some brag 'bout a banjo
some 'bout a fiddle and de bow
but they stands no show
when Sousa comes to CoonTown.

We all loves a brass band
and we'll march throughout the land,
Each one joining hand in hand,
always when the band plays,
Some brag 'bout a banjo
some 'bout a fiddle and de bow
but they stands no show
when Sousa comes to CoonTown.

All you coons must dress up in red
or near it as you can,
Turkey red is just the thing
to make a flash
and it will help the scene look gran'
I wants de coons dat has de coin
to cook some chicken pie,
so the order will float through the air
when Sousa marches by:
Den scratch them signs off your houses too
the ones that say for rent,
and look out of your windows
like you owned the earth
with a broad smile of content,
And now there's just another favour
that I would ask of you.
Just let me hear the way you'll sing,
when Sousa marches through.

We all loves a brass band
and we'll march throughout the land,
Each one joining hand in hand,
always when the band plays,
Some brag 'bout a banjo
some 'bout a fiddle and de bow
but they stands no show
when Sousa comes to CoonTown.

We all loves a brass band
and we'll march throughout the land,
Each one joining hand in hand,
always when the band plays,
Some brag 'bout a banjo
some 'bout a fiddle and de bow
but they stands no show
when Sousa comes to CoonTown.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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When Sousa Comes To Coon-town 1902
Music by Jim Vaughn & Tom Lemonier
Lyrics by Alex Rogers
© 1902 by Shapiro, Bernstein & Company
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 6 June 2008 at 13.39
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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