Title

That is a Habit I Never Had / music by Walter Wilson; words by Walter Wilson

Authors

Walter Wilson
Walter Wilson
Howley Dresser Co. (New York)

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ISBN

MUM00682, 0133

Description

Cover: drawing of a portly African American male smoking a cigar and staring into the distance, where workers toil; photo inset of singers Leighton and Leighton; Publisher: Howley Dresser Co. (New York)

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Songs -- United States -- 20th Century; Popular Music -- United States

Relational Format

music score

Original Format

scores

Original Collection

Sheldon Harris Collection (MUM00682), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

Finding Aid

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids/322

Lyrics

Lyrics:
First verse
Listen now white folks, while I tell to you, Coons without a habit are mighty few, Some have a habit of dressing neat while my bad habit is to sleep and eat I'm telling all you coons that you will all be dead If you don't stop hallin' cigarettes up in your head There's two habits I have barred, They are fightin' bout my gal and working hard.
Chorus
Well that is a habit I never had, That kind of habit is mighty bad; I'm telling you coons now I'm mighty glad That kind of habit I never had that kind of a habit I never had, That kind of habit is mighty bad; I'm telling you coons now I'm mighty glad That kind of habit I never had
Second verse
Tell you how a habit got a friend of mine, Who owned a half interest in a silver mine He got married, then his downfall came, In a bout six month he'd sold his claim, Now his money's all gone and she throwed him down He's the raggedest coon thats in this town It serves him right, for he ruined his life He had the foolish habit giving money to his wife.
(Chorus)

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