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06 Jul 00 - 07:08 AM (#252765) Subject: Can anyone name this song? From: GUEST,d.clark@coventry.ac.uk Title and words for the song from which the following is a dimly recalled extract: I feel so happy that I was set free The master and the mistress were so kind to me But my heart is aching and breaking Their faces to see once more ??? sitting by the fireside bright Hanging up her stocking on a Christmas night ?? ?? In a cabin on the mississippi shore |
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06 Jul 00 - 07:27 AM (#252772) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Can anyone name this song? From: katlaughing Hi, d clark, welcome to the Mudcat. You will get better results if you try to include a title or words in the title of your thread, BUT I think I may be able to help you. By putting the words "Mississippi Shore" in the Super Search box at the top of the threads and clicking on Go, I found a thread which may have a link to the words you are looking for, just click here, please and look down the list for the posted link. If that isn't it, do the Super Search thing, because there were several other threads which came up also. Hope this helps, katlaughing (also emailed) |
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18 Sep 00 - 07:08 AM (#299785) Subject: song title and words reqd. From: GUEST,David Clark Some weeks ago I tried to find out the title and words for a half-forgotten song but despite some helpful replies I was unsuccessful. The words I remember are: I feel so sorry that I was set free The masser and the missis were so kind to me My heart is aching and breacking Their faces to see once more ???? sitting by the fireside bright Hanging up a stocking on the Christmas night Santa Claus is coming in the morning To the cabin on the Mississippi shore. Thanks to those who replied earlier but can anyone else help please -- PA -- |
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18 Sep 00 - 07:54 AM (#299806) Subject: RE: song title and words reqd. From: Noreen It would be best to refresh the original thread, David- what was it called? If we know that it can be linked to this one- then we know what's already been found. Noreen |
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18 Sep 00 - 08:48 AM (#299828) Subject: RE: song title and words reqd. From: GUEST,Michael in Swansea A friend of mine sings this, well at least he used to, but I'm not sure where he is at present, I shall make enquiries. He sung it:
I sure was unhappy when I was set free
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23 Sep 00 - 03:30 PM (#303945) Subject: RE: song title and words reqd. From: Gypsy Sure sounds like Stephen Foster to me. Out of town at the moment, will look up when i get home in october. (if you really want me to look up, please PM me about then so i remember) |
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08 Dec 01 - 02:33 PM (#606376) Subject: American ? folksong from a century ago From: GUEST,Clarks24@btinternet.com I am trying to find the name and words of a song which my 80 year old mother was sung to her by her motherin London England: so it must be 1920s or 1930s. The only words she remembers are: I feel so happy that I was set free The master and the mistress were so kind to me My heart is aching and breaking Their faces to see once more Piccanniny sitting by the fireside bright Hanging up her stocjking on christmas night Santa claus is coming in the morning To the cabin on the mississippi shore Could this be an American folksong? Help please |
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08 Dec 01 - 02:45 PM (#606380) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) H. P. Danks, 1879. In American Memory. Type the title in google and you go directly to the titles, American sheet music, 1870-1885. |
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08 Dec 01 - 02:46 PM (#606382) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Oops! "Cabin on the Mississippi Shore." |
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08 Dec 01 - 02:52 PM (#606384) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: Sandy Paton The title, as I guessed it might be, is "The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore." Google brought it up in a flash. What an amazing search aid! Sandy |
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08 Dec 01 - 02:56 PM (#606387) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) If you have difficulty reading the sheet music, I will print it out for you. The title to use is "De Cabin On De Mississippi Shore." There is an entirely different song under The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore, by Gussie L. Davis, 1884 |
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09 Dec 01 - 06:03 AM (#606657) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: GUEST,Clarks24@btinternet.com If you could print it for me that would be really great -and it would make my mother's Christmas! Thanks David clark Warwickshire UK |
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09 Dec 01 - 08:31 AM (#606685) Subject: Lyr Add: DE CABIN ON DE MISSISSIPPI SHORE From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) DE CABIN ON DE MISSISSIPPI SHORE (Ida Scott Taylor and H. P. Danks) 1. De years hab gone by, an' de darkies all am free, But we'll neber see de happy times no more; When we lib'd in Lou'sian', 'mong de blessed cotton fields, In de cabin on de Mississippi shore. CHORUS: Den wipe away de tears from your shiny [Negro] face, An' don't you go to mournin' any more; But hand dat banjo down, an' I'll play a little tune, 'Bout de cabin on de Mississippi shore. 2. Dey bring'd us up Norf far away from all de folks, An' de little picaninnies yell'd an' cried; But dey's all grow'd up big an' has cabins ob deir own, An' some ob de tender ones hab died. CHORUS 3. My Dinah gal an' me am a-gettin' ole an' gray, An' soon we won't be workin' any more; When de Massa calls us home to de Canaan's happy land, Whar de darkies am a-shoutin' on de shore. CHORUS Words by Ida Scott Taylor; music by H. P. Danks. New York: H. P. Danks, 1879 H. P. Danks, 1879. Probably not the words you wanted, but these songs of that time were often changed and re-issued by other publishers. I have changed one word to make the lyrics slightly more acceptable in today's "corrected" climate; this song was popular and changes were made through time. THE CABIN ON THE MISSISSIPPI SHORE (Gussie L. Davis) There's a little old log cabin on the Mississippi shore, Where I whiled so many happy hours away, Where the little picaninnies played around the cabin door And the little birds piped out their tuneful lays; It was many years ago when I left that dear old shore, Where in childhood days I used to hoe the cain But soon I will go back by the coon and possum track To the old home and my dear old 'Liza Jane. I have been away from the home I left so gay, I know there's been a change around the place, But I'm going back once more to that cabin on the shore, My dear loving wife and children to embrace, I was happy there and free from all sorrow, pain and care, And it's years since I heard the old banjo, The darks would sing all night, all so merry, gay and bright In the cabin on the Mississippi shore. I'm getting old, they say my limbs they won't obey, My head it tells old age is coming on, It tells of weary years of sorrow, grief and tears, But I'll set out on my way with intention that some day Will find me by old 'Liza's side once more, Forever to remain and I'll never roam again From the cabin on the Mississippi shore. CHORUS: I'm going back, I'm going back to my dear old southern home once more, The place where I was born 'mong the sugar and the corn, The cabin on the Mississippi shore. Words and music by Gussie L. Davis Cincinnati: J. C. Groene & Co., 1884. Probably derived from the first song by Gussie L. Davis in 1884; perhaps closer to what you want. I hope these help. Click to play (joeweb) |
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09 Dec 01 - 01:28 PM (#606752) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: GUEST,Clarks24@btinternet.com Many thanks for the lyrics. That could be the end of a long search. Happy Christmas |
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09 Dec 01 - 06:58 PM (#606894) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: Rolfyboy6 I really have trouble with this song. I honor your desire to please your mother. But this song is an example of the worst sort of Victorian racism and is part and parcel of the cultural propaganda that accompanied the imposition of the vicious Jim Crow laws throughout the South. "Pickaninnies?" I realize that those without sufficient knowlege may be seduced by the "Gone with the Wind" image of "Darkies strumming their banjos and singing in the 'Quarters' and old Massa jest a-lubbing every one of them. The image doesn't contain the realities of the slave auctioneer, the counting house, and the whipping post. |
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09 Dec 01 - 07:34 PM (#606920) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: Joe Offer True, Rolfyboy, but what do we do with songs like this? Do we erase them from all memory, and deny that such attitudes existed in our history? -Joe Offer- |
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09 Dec 01 - 08:01 PM (#606932) Subject: Lyr Add: OLD KENTUCKY HOME (Stephen Foster) From: Giac I don't know the melody, but aren't these lyrics remarkably similar to Stephen Foster's My Old Kentucky Home? His, according to American Music, Stephen Foster pages was published in 1853, but these two in 1879 and 1884. The following lyrics are from the DT and have been PC'd from the version I knew as a child. OLD KENTUCKY HOME (Stephen Foster) The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home 'Tis summer, the folks there are gay The corn top's ripe and the meadow's in bloom While the birds make music all the day The young folks roll on the little cabin floor All merry, all happy and bright By 'n by hard times come a-knocking at the door Then my old Kentucky home good night Weep no more, my lady Oh, weep no more, today We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home For the old Kentucky home far away. They hunt no more for the 'possum and the coon, On meadow, the hill and the shore, They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon, On the bench by that old cabin door. The day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart, With sorrow where all was delight. The time has come when the darkies have to part, Then my old Kentucky home, good night. The head must bow and the back will have to bend, Wherever the poor folks may go A few more days and the trouble will end, In the field where sugar-canes may grow. A few more days for to tote the weary load, No matter, 'twill never be light A few more days till we totter on the road, Then my old Kentucky home, good night. @nostalgia @South filename[ KENTYHOM Sorry if this has been mentioned previously. I searched, but found nothing comparing these songs. Mary
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09 Dec 01 - 08:13 PM (#606937) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) People who object to these songs and stories have no conception of history and how the past shapes the present and our response to it. Piccaninny is not Victorian; it saw print at least as early as 1657, when it was used in the Barbados, by Negros, for a very small child. The word comes from the completely acceptable (I hope) Spanish pequeniño, or wee child (OED). Spanish remained common in the Caribbean islands and region for years after the British takeover. The word came to the Louisiana area with Spanish planters and with slaves transferred from Caribbean plantations to the mainland. Introduced to Australia, South Africa and other areas, it was "commonly used by the natives themselves." Certainly it was the usual term among southern Negroes, slave or free, for their wee ones. The word is also related to the American picayune, or very small, from the Sp. half-reale, a coin still in circulation in the States until the mid-19C. (Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Uncle Tom's Cabin). Limiting consideration of these terms to southern cultural propaganda also betrays ignorance; slavery was not legally proscribed by the British until 1833, but continued covertly in the Caribbean, and particularly in the Australasian area, until after the time of the Emancipation Proclamation. I also suggest, for the general Anglo-Saxon British views, the Encyclopaedia Britanica 11th Edition, post-Victorian, be consulted. |
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09 Dec 01 - 08:16 PM (#606939) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: Rolfyboy6 Joe, I'm well aware of that arguement and subscribe to it myself. I am, however, also aware of the tendency to retreat behind that arguement and pat oneself one the back for 'broadmindedness', and thus, failing to shortcircuit the subconcious viciousness of the song's cultural baggage. Actually, the best thing that could happen to this song is what Randy Newman did to "Old Folks At Home"--full irony. |
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09 Dec 01 - 09:05 PM (#606964) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: Rolfyboy6 Dicho--so what? How is this germane to the central issue? Your posting contains an assumption that I am labelling a word victorian. Academic obfuscation. Further, I am well aware of how such songs shaped the world view and more importantly the view of the south and the lace curtain mentality. Beware blanket statements. |
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09 Dec 01 - 09:25 PM (#606976) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Rolfeyboy, you were the one who used the term "Victorian Racism" and "cultural propaganda" which are not germaine to rational argument. I should have realized that response should not be made to people who use such terms. |
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09 Dec 01 - 09:36 PM (#606980) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Giac, you may well be correct. I found myself humming "My Old Kentucky Home" as I copied these songs from American Memory, Library of Congress. It was a very common practice for publishers to profit from popular songs by others; they would get some musician to make up new words and a slightly different tune and sell the result as original. Collections of old broadsides and sheet music show that this happened over and over. In the case of "Cabin on the Mississippi Shore," this copy? became popular in its own right. You probably realize that the version of "My Old Kentucky Home" as you have posted it is not the original version by Stephen Foster. |
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09 Dec 01 - 09:59 PM (#606989) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American ? folksong from a century a From: Rolfyboy6 Dicho, blow the dust off yourself, son. |
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18 May 05 - 07:14 AM (#1487145) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: GUEST,tgv I've been looking for the same song. I saw a copy of it in a collection of Christmas songs about 12 years ago in a library book and I have lost my copy of it... Life was ever thus. There was DEFINITELY a reference to Santa in it... |
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18 May 05 - 02:16 PM (#1487388) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: Q (Frank Staplin) We never did find this one. Here are two possibilities. Hank Snow- "On the Mississippi Shore." Delmore Bros.- "Happy on the Mississippi Shore." Does anyone know the lyrics to these? |
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18 May 05 - 06:29 PM (#1487601) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: Peace http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:g8dcpQ9EfjAJ:arc.cs.odu.edu:8080/dp9/getrecord/oai_dc/oai.dlib.indiana.edu/oai:oai.dlib.ind Happy on the Mississippi Shore available here. |
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02 Jun 05 - 05:53 PM (#1498570) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: GUEST,drbalog@yahoo.com I have an old ukulele primer in which the second line reads: "'Tis summer the darkies are gay" Just thought I'd make everyone even more touchy. Sorry |
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02 Jun 05 - 10:02 PM (#1498786) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: dick greenhaus For them as don't know it, Gussie L. Davis was the first black songwriter to make it on whatever passed for the pop charts back then. |
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03 Jun 05 - 04:32 PM (#1499530) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: Q (Frank Staplin) Guest drbalog- 'darkies are gay' is the original in Foster sheet music, but often changed now. My Old Kentucky Home All Foster songs at this website, original lyrics. |
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03 Jun 05 - 04:40 PM (#1499535) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: Q (Frank Staplin) Does anyone have the lyrics to Hank Snow, "Mississippi Shore"? The song is in cd1 of the 5-cd set, "The Yodeling Ranger." |
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03 Jun 05 - 06:01 PM (#1499632) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: GUEST,Art Thieme Good folks, I loved the song De Massa Ob De Sheepfol' ever since I first heard it sung by Dr. Jerry Epstein at Pinewoods Camp in Massachusetts. Sing Out! magazine had printed it some time earlier---just the lyric--in a column---but still with the heavy dialect included. I thought it interesting, and a good document of another time and place---and, as such, ought to be saved in an archive like the Archive Of Folk Song at the Library Of Congress. Later, when I learned the song, I did it based on Jerry Epstein's sung version the first time I'd heard it. It would've sounded totally outrageous, I felt, for me to even begin to sing the song like I was some vaudeville black-faced Eddie Cantor. Master Of The Sheepfold is what I called it. I thought I was correct in doing what I did. I did what I had to in order to live with myself---and to do my part in bringing a fine song forward to more of the folk revival in the USA. Some say it is religious, but I see it as a song about INCLUSION -- the opposite of exclusion. Therefore it cannot be about organized religion as that is exemplified on this planet. Years later, old friend Cindy Mangsen found the original poem called De Massa Ob De Sheepfol' by the poet Sarah Pratt McLean Greene---born in Connecticut in the 1800s--died in Massachusetts in 1932. This original lyric, without any tune yet, was in the heavy caricature dialect that whites thought blacks, at best, actually were enunciating. At worst this dialect was yet another way to poke fun at, and/or heap derision and hate on the entire Negro race. This week I found the song at a website dedicated to the wonders that are SHEEP in just about any shape or form. (I can see the old western cattlemen spinning in their graves! ;-) There is a wonderful full color painting of a flock of sheep basking in the warm light lowering rays of the sun along with the words. (I get mentioned as their source, although they say I attributed the song to "someone in Maine"---which I did not. I said that some earlier carriers of the song learned it from BILL BONYUN in Maine. Unfortuneately, this misquote is from our own Mudcat DIGITAL TRADITION.--Hint, hint, Dick Greenhaus. Possibly intentionally, the sheep on the highest point of land is the darkest in color. Check it out at: http://www.ramshornstudio.com.sheepfold_m.htm Enjoy! It's a nice song with a moral---about some sheep!! ;-) Art Thieme |
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03 Jun 05 - 06:26 PM (#1499660) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: Q (Frank Staplin) The song with music by John Kimball Reynolds, pub. in 1895, is in American Memory. As mentioned in thread 10649, it was used as a hymn in Negro churches in Canada. Col. W. Mallory, ex-slave who escaped to Canada, printed the version he knew in his booklet, "Old Plantation Days," pub. in 1902. What music was set to the poem in Canada I don't know; it could have been different from that written by Reynolds. |
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22 Feb 06 - 11:31 AM (#1675940) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: GUEST Those who complain about the past's prejudices are wasting their time. Also, to protest songs of the past which contain racism is to limit one's understanding of the past. If you don't let people see what black people suffered, then they won't have any understanding for them. |
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16 Nov 11 - 02:42 PM (#3258282) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: GUEST,Anne My mother sang this to us when we were kids, her grandad sang it to her, I sang it to mine and now I am singing it to my grandaughter though with todays society it wouldn't be politically correct!!!!! |
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01 Jan 13 - 04:02 PM (#3460138) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: GUEST,Peter.. Well it's 2013, and I'm still looking for it. I live in New Zealand and a Dear old Aunt used to sing it. As she sang it... Oh I do feel so happy that I was set free The master and the misses were so good to me My heart is aching and breaking Their faces I long to see. The Piccanninies standing 'round the fireside bright Hanging up their stockings on Christmas night For Santa Claus is coming in the morning To the cabin on the Mississippi shore. Ring out the bells for Christmas Ring out the bells for Christmas Ring out the bells Ring out the bells. Foe it's been a happy day..... I would love to find the complete lyrics.... |
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27 Jan 13 - 02:39 AM (#3471931) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: GUEST,Trevor on Bribie I too have looked for "Santa Claus is Coming in the Morning..." etc, after seeing it in a Christmas song compendium, published possibly in the UK in the 80s. Might even have been edited by someone important such as David Willcocks. Glossy colour printing. In a local Brisbane library. Gone now. |
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27 Jan 13 - 11:42 AM (#3472065) Subject: Lyr Add: THE CABIN NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI SHORE From: Jim Dixon I found this additional song with a similar title at the Maine Music Box. Unfortunately, only the first 2 pages are viewable; after that, pages from a different song have been mismatched with it. (I have emailed the librarians about the error.) THE CABIN NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI SHORE Words by Henry Wise, music by Sidney Perrin. New York: Howley, Hawland & Co., 1898. 1. Way down in Louisiana, near the Mississippi's flow, There stands an old log cabin on the hill, Behind the cabin in the fields the corn and 'taters grow, In the trees the birds send forth their sweetest trill, Within the old log cabin lives a darkey and his wife, And.... 2. Thro' the windows of the cabin beams the silvery moon, While night-birds they are cooing soft and low, And mammy says that daddy will be coming mighty soon, As she slowly rocks the cradle to and fro, The ringing of a banjo coming to them down the lane, Tells.... |
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12 Oct 13 - 10:33 AM (#3566297) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pickaninnys sitting by the fire side From: GUEST Like our Newzealand Friends we too have been looking for this Black Lullaby Alex. from Liverpool |
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27 Jul 14 - 05:54 PM (#3645778) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: GUEST,Amsam Dee I have the lyrics remembered and written down by my mother, when she was very, very old, so no guarentees but I am fascinated how it seems to match and belong on this page. About slave being SORRY he was set free "Masser and de Missus were so good to me" It includes the line about the Christmas stockins, the piccaninnis and the mississippi shore. 2 full verses and a chorus. Happy to share but not sure how to do it. Maybe i just post it here? |
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27 Jul 14 - 06:44 PM (#3645790) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shor ADD From: GUEST,AmSam Dee I don't care so much about de sunshine I don't bother much about de rain I can't help brooding over bygone days And a home i may never see again Trying mighty hard to keep from weeping An longin for de Mississippi shore Where de steamboats used to come a sweepin By my cabin door Chorus Oh I do feel sorry that i was set free Masser an de Missus was so good to me Ma hearts just achin and abreakin Dere faces to see once more Pickaninis sitting round a fire so bright Hangin up dere stockins on a Christmas night Cos Santa claus is comin in the mornin To de cabin on de mississppi shore Sometimes I feel I'd like to wander Back to de cotton fields again I can't help broodin over bygone days And my tears dey start to fall just like de rain Piccaninies run to meet dere mammies Dere merry voices ringin thro de air Pretty soon de moon begins a shinin And Dina meet me dere" |
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28 Jul 14 - 11:00 AM (#3645957) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: Jim Dixon The lyrics that GUEST,AmSam Dee has just posted are apparently from SANTY CLAUS IS COMIN' 'FORE DE MORNIN' Words by C.L. Mays; music by M.P. Hunter; "sung by Miss Bessie Wentworth" London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1898. First line: I don't care much about de sunshine. First line of chorus: I do feel sorry dat I was set free. WorldCat.org says that the Oxford University has the sheet music. Yale University also has it--they classify it as "British Art." |
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28 Jul 14 - 04:36 PM (#3646081) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: GUEST,leeneia When I was a kid, growing up in Chicagoland, I was taught that black people 'escaped' the South and were so lucky to come up north. This song shows us the emotional wrench of that migration - how a black person misses his homeland, his southern environment, with its heat, its plants, its water. He also misses his extended family and his friends, snd when he retires, he's going back. (I am reminded of Helen Keller in her autobiography, speaking of "the many flowers of my southern home." I'm going to make a MIDI of the song from American MEmory and ask Joe to post it (maybe today, maybe not) so people can sing it. Check back. ========= I too can quibble about an isolated word. No American would say 'Mississippi shore.' Rivers don't have shores, they have banks. Lakes and oceans have shores, but not rivers. Starting at the river and moving inland, we have River River bank Levee (if any) Bottomland or floodplain Bluff Upland But 'shore' rhymes with 'door,' so what can ya do? |
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28 Jul 14 - 06:50 PM (#3646111) Subject: Lyr Add: DOWN ON THE MISSISSIPPI SHORE (Skelly) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Here's a song with "Mississippi shore" printed in New York. I know of one other (both in American Memory). Joseph P. Skelly also wrote "The Old Rustic Bridge by the Mill," sheet music printed in Australia. I have no idea where he hailed from. The text seems to be based on a better song. Possibly from an Australian minstrel troupe. DOWN ON THE MISSISSIPPI SHORE (Joseph P. Skelly) I was a festive little nigger, In the days what used to be, Down on de Mississippi river, O, dem was de times for me. I can't fergit dem good ole days Just fore de cruel war, When de coons were happy in de fields of corn, Down on de Mississippi shore. CHORUS Halelujah! shout and sing, Don't you be sad no more. We will sing togedder of de dear ole home Down on de Mississippi shore. We played on de fiddle and banjo And sang all de livelong day, Ole Uncle Rufus used to watch us Dancing around so gay. At night when all de work was done We sat at de cabin door, And the gals went crazy wid de music sweet, Down on de Mississippi shore. Dere I would ramble in de twilight Wid my true love so dear, And stray in de shadow of de branches Where de birds sang sweet and clear. Dat happy time is passed away, 'Twill never come no more; I'm always t'inking of de dear ole home, Down on de Mississippi shore. Copyright E. E. Harding, 1879. Printed by E. H. Harding, New York, 1880. American Memory. |
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28 Jul 14 - 10:04 PM (#3646161) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: Q (Frank Staplin) The other song is "Mississippi Shore," lyrics by Charley Lawton Lovell, music by Edgar G. Spinning. Sheet music at American Memory. A sad song, about Nellie who now "lies sleeping." Published by Oliver Ditson, Boston, 1857. No information on Ch. L. Lovell (possible;, English, ancestry.com, record for 1860). Edgar G. Spinning wrote "The Blind Soldier's Lament," 1863; an American Civil War song (not seen). 1st. verse: Where the Mississippi's waters lave a flow'ry southern shore, A little cot was standing in the happy days of yore; There oft-times I have wandered, with Nellie by my side, And watched the wavy motion of the river's rolling tide. |
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28 Jul 14 - 11:14 PM (#3646172) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks for enriching the compendium, Q. |
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29 Jul 14 - 12:46 AM (#3646186) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore From: GUEST,leeneia I've made a MIDI of the song by Gussie L. Davis and submitted it for posting here. This is the song in the American Memory collection in the Library of Congress. It is a nice little 19-C. tune, and I've changed it from A flat to A. The lyrics for this tune were posted by Dicho (above) on Dec 9, 2001. Click to play (joeweb) |
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29 Jul 14 - 11:58 AM (#3646326) Subject: Lyr Add: SANTY CLAUS IS COMIN' 'FORE DE MORNIN' From: Jim Dixon Sorry I didn't find this earlier. The sheet music can be viewed online at the University of Tennessee website. Only one verse is given. There is a 4-part harmony arrangement of the chorus. SANTY CLAUS IS COMIN' 'FORE DE MORNIN' Words by C. L. Mays, music by M. P. Hunter, "sung by Miss Bessie Wentworth" London: Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1898. 1. I don't care much about de sunshine, And don't bother much about de rain, I'm always thinkin' ob de southern clime And a home I may never see again. Tryin' mighty hard to keep from weepin', Longin' for de Mississippi shore, Where de steamboats used to go a-sweepin' By my cabin door. CHORUS: I do feel sorry dat I was set free, Massa and missus were so good to me, My heart's just aching and a-breakin' Their faces just to see once more. Piccaninnies singin' roun' de fires so bright; Hangin' up their stockings on Christmas night, 'Cause Santy Claus is comin' 'fore de mornin' To de cabin on de Mississippi shore. |