Sheet Music, 1910-1919
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ISBN
MUM00682, 0130
Description
Cover: photo of a Caucasian male in blackface; Publisher: Chas K. Harris (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
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Lyrics
Lyrics:
First verse
Down in sugar county, where the sugar canes all grow Where the little birds are always singing, sweet and low, Lives a little sugar ev'ryone in this world knows, Ev'ry time I look at her I just can't help from Oh! Oh!
Chorus
Sweetness, come and kiss your little Sweetness, Cause you know that it'll Leave some blisses where your kiss is. Bumping on my lips all the time. Watermelon wasn't ever sweeter, Oh my, there's no one could beat her. Of all the sweetness, there's none so sweet as, That honey suckle of mine. mine mine mine, Honey suckle of mine.
Second verse
When the levees' crowded and the banjos start to play Darkies all a harmonizing, tunes of yesterday Sitting on a bale of cotton, sighs my black eyed Lou, Sneakin' up behind her, I commence to bill and coo oo.
(Chorus)
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