tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post1846672695524195442..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Sweet Papa Stovepipe - "All Birds Look Like Chicken To Me" (example, partial lyrics)Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-5008850111616294162015-05-12T07:38:13.574-04:002015-05-12T07:38:13.574-04:00Thanks for sharing that information, Anonymous.
...Thanks for sharing that information, Anonymous. <br /><br />Would you please include your source for that information? Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-30596291367481114702015-05-11T23:48:38.053-04:002015-05-11T23:48:38.053-04:00Just found out that the song was written by Irving...Just found out that the song was written by Irving Jones, circa 1899. Sorry, I also can't make out all the lyrics and can't find the original.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-66738406626160733782014-08-10T18:09:35.854-04:002014-08-10T18:09:35.854-04:00Here's some information that I just read about...Here's some information that I just read about 19th Black men wearing top hats:<br />In reference to the original 1904 "coon song" version of the song "The Preacher and The Bear": <a href="http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=941&messages=38" rel="nofollow">http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=941&messages=38</a><br /><br />From Lyr Req: The Preacher and the Bear<br />From: GUEST,P. Neilson <br />Date: 29 Mar 06 - 01:11 AM <br /><br />..".I own the piano player roll to this tune. The original words of the song do put it into the category of "coon song". The words of such songs and even the name of this genre are unacceptable today, but they are part of history and as such deserve to be preserved. Performances should be bracketed by careful historical explanations.<br /><br /> The razor in the lyrics is one of three common tokens of the comic stereotype of blacks a hundred years ago. The other two were a watermelon, usually stolen, and a top hat. The sheet music cover shows the Preacher wearing a top hat. Why<br /> the hat? Presumably during slave times it was a problem for free black men in the South to avoid slave catchers, men who would pick up unowned blacks as runaway slaves. Ownership of a good hat presumably announced to all that the wearer was a free gentleman, and not a slave."<br />-snip-<br />That discussion thread contains multiple text versions of that song, including those with and without coon references. Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com