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Mr. Fagan's Authentic Coon Song with new Counterpoint Lyric
netskyIam

My gal is a highborn lady
 1
Barney Fagan, pop song writer
 2
She's black but not too shady
 3
Rides in a surrey with a lighter
 4
Feathered like a peacock, just as gay
 5
Lady as he pimps for dimes
 6
She is not colored, she was born that way
 7
In that runaway hit of 1899
 8
I'm proud of my black Venus
 9
Arising, the song they're singing
 10
No coon can come between us
 11
Fagan, girl and their black trap bringing
 12
Along the line they can't outshine
 13
dark trade to this present day
 14
This highborn gal of mine
 15
dressed in no different way
 16
 
 
counterpoint
 17
 
 
Barney Fagan, pop song writer:
 18
My gal is a highborn lady
 19
rides in a surrey with a lighter
 20
She's black but not too shady
 21
lady as he pimps for dimes
 22
Feathered like a peacock, just as gay
 23
in that runaway hit of 1899
 24
She is not colored, she was born that way
 25
Arising, the song they're singing
 26
I'm proud of my black Venus
 27
Fagan, girl and their black trap bringing
 28
No coon can come between us
 29
dark trade, to this present day
 30
Along the line they can't outshine
 31
dressed no in different way than
 32
This highborn gal of mine
 33

5 Feb 06

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I'm telling!
 — unknown

The genuine, old- time song lyric begins the poem
The new counterpoint lyric is -between- the old lines.

EXPLAIN PLEASE.
 — unknown

Starting at L1, every other line is the lyric of Barney Fagin's greatest song hit,
"My Gal is a High Born Lady".  This type of song was called a "coon song" and is a relic
of the darker days of our social history here in the USA.   The explotation of blacks continued after slavery was ended.  In fact, it continues today, albeit the exploiters are no longer white (imo).  

Notice that Fagin did not make the black gal honest?  "not too shady".  It was as if he did not dare, at that time.  Why, all coons were -untrustworthy-.  

The other great hit of that era was "All Coons Look Alike to Me".   You'd not know it by the title, but it was a love song too.

Dark relics remembered.  

I learned of this song first hand from an elderly woman who -was- that girl in Fagin's carriage;  a white man's carriage and all white people only.   They sang the song into the St. Louis breezes one fine day in a surrey, ca. 1900.  

-It was this memory of Natalies, related to me thirty years ago, that gave the idea for placing them back into the surrey for a social commentary.

-all explained now-  (more than anyone would want to know).

Thanks,  reid
 — netskyIam

retouched with a new title and bold italic fonting.

your thoughts?
 — netskyIam

author croaks out Fagan's lyric and tune, as it was taught to him by Natalie A., who learned it directly from the composer himself 106 years or so ago.  
Natalie was in that surrey.  

http://tinyurl.com/fyven
 — netskyIam

um, why isn't this racist?
 — unknown
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