You Said A-Plenty 1900 Stella Mayhew - "On The Swanee River"

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 12 Mar 2007
2007

If a coon ever had any cause to complain
I must be it.
Thought I was solid with ma yaller wife,
but I guess we've quit.
I didn't even know where I was at
when I went last night up to the flat,
and I found a heap of worry there for me.
She says: "Look here, you can't ring
in no bluff on me."
And she called me names you don't hear in society.
I then told her a thing or two
just as the fuss began to brew,
when, like a flash,
to me these words she said:

You said a plenty
and ma heart is fancy free
because I'm tired now of your society.
I had a diamond ring when I met you,
an automobile and a sealskin, too.
You've been a hoodoo,
and it ain't no use. Mister nigger.
Do you think I'm a silly goose?
I'm goin' to blow the town
goin' to throw you down.
Goodbye. You said a plenty.

You said a plenty
and ma heart is fancy free
because I'm tired now of your society.
I had a diamond ring when I met you,
an automobile and a sealskin, too.
You've been a hoodoo,
and it ain't no use. Mister nigger.
Do you think I'm a silly goose?
I'm goin' to blow the town
goin' to throw you down.
Goodbye. You said a plenty.

Says I to my babe:
"Can't you see for yourself
been drinkin' gin?"
She says: "Certainly,
and that's the reason you can't get in.
You leave home sober
but you come back full.
Oh, coon, with me you've lost your pull,
keep a movin' for this am your farewell tour.
What a fool I've been to ever waste my time on you."
For I'm goin' on the stage with the Octoroons,
so that's your cue.
Have a three sheet poster.
You needn't laugh.
In the windows you'll see my lithograph.
So. run away now, babe, and take the cure.

You said a plenty
and ma heart is fancy free
because I'm tired now of your society.
I had a diamond ring when I met you,
an automobile and a sealskin, too.
You've been a hoodoo,
and it ain't no use. Mister nigger.
Do you think I'm a silly goose?
I'm goin' to blow the town
goin' to throw you down.
Goodbye. You said a plenty.

You said a plenty
and ma heart is fancy free
because I'm tired now of your society.
I had a diamond ring when I met you,
an automobile and a sealskin, too.
You've been a hoodoo,
and it ain't no use. Mister nigger.
Do you think I'm a silly goose?
I'm goin' to blow the town
goin' to throw you down.
Goodbye. You said a plenty.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
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piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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You Said A-Plenty 1900
sung with great success by Stella Mayhew in
"On The Swanee River"
Music by Arthur Gillespie
Lyrics by Earle Remington
© MCM by M.Witmark & Sons
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 12 February 2007 at 9.57am
in association with Doug Grierson
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