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Lyr Add: I'se So Wicked (Minstrel)

19 Jun 05 - 07:33 PM (#1504618)
Subject: Lyr Add: I'se So Wicked (Minstrel)
From: chico


   G7                                C  G7               C
  Oh! white-folks, I was never born,-- Aunt Sue raise me on de corn,
   7               F               G7                     C
  Send me errands night and morn, Ching a ring a ring a ricked.
       C7            F           D7   G7          E7 Am
  She used to knock on de floor, den hang my head agin de door,
       G7              C           D7  G7        C
  And tare my hair out by de core, Oh! I was so wicked.
  
    C                    F          
  Black folks can't do naught, they say,
     C                     G7
  I guess I'll teach some how to play,
       C                F             F#°
  And dance about dis time ob day,--
   G7                           C
  Ching a ring a bang goes de breakdown.
  
  Oh! Massa Clare, he bring me here, put me in Miss Freeley's care,
  Don't I make dat lady stare,-- ching a ring a ring a ricked.
  She has me taken cloth'd and fed, den sends me up to make her bed,
  When I de foot into de head, Oh! I'se so awful wicked.
  
  I'se dar Topsy as you see:
  None of your half and half for me,
  Black or white its best to be,
  Ching a ring a bop, goes the breakdown.
  
  Oh! dere is one will come and day,-- "Be good, Topsy, learn to pray!"
  And raise her bufull hands dat way, ching a ring a ring a ricked.
  'Tis Little Eva, kind and fair, says if I'se good I will go dere,
  But den I tells her I don't care, Oh! aint I very wicked.
  
  Eat de cake and love de corn,
  I'se de gal dat ne'er was born,
  But 'spects I grow'd up one dark morn,
  Ching a ring a smash goes de breakdown.
  
  ["Oh! I'se So Wicked" (1854) Words and Music by G. C. Howard. Source: pages 78-80 of "Minstrel Songs, Old and New" (1883)]
19 Jun 05 - 07:47 PM (#1504628)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I'se So Wicked (Minstrel)
From: masato sakurai

The Levy collection has these pieces.

(1) Title: Oh! I'se So Wicked.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words and Music written By Geo. C. Howard.
Publication: New York: Horace Waters, 333 Broadway, 1854.
Performer: As Sung By Mrs. G.C. Howard in her Original Character of "Topsy" in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

(2) Title: Oh! I'se So Wicked.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words and Music Written by Geo. C. Howard.
Publication: New York: Horace Waters, 333 Broadway, 1854.

(3) Title: The Songs of G.C. Howard. O I'se So Wicked.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words and Music by G.C. Howard.
Publication: Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1882.

Lyrics & midi are at Public Domain Music: Minstrel Songs, Old and New.