Sheet Music, 1910-1919
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ISBN
MUM00682, 0021
Description
Cover: drawing of an African American couple gazing into each others eyes; Publisher: Jerome H. Remick and Co. (Detroit)
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Songs -- United States -- 20th Century; Popular Music -- United States
Relational Format
music score
Original Format
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Original Collection
Sheldon Harris Collection (MUM00682), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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Lyrics
Lyrics:
First verse
Dixie dimples deepen Dixie hearts are beatin' Dixie heads and hands are keepin' time Down in Cotton Hollow they just sort of wallow In an atmosphere of melody and rhyme That hamlet harmonizes night and day Singin' when they fight or when they pray
Chorus
Hear those cotton pickers moan Hear the deacon's baritone The mammies sweep in rythm their pickaninnies with em Prancin' dancin' all around the cabin clearin' See that long lean lazy bass Makin' such an awful face With the band a jazzin' like a jubilee Darkies actin' like they just got free That's Cotton Hollow Harmony-ny
Second verse
Dixie voices singin'' Dixie banjos ringin' Cotton Hollow's syncopatin' grand Each gal has a fellow moonlight makes em mellow Even Uncle Tom's a-holdin'' some gal's hand List'nin' to those chords sure does inspire Kettles can't help hummin' on the fire
(Chorus)
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