The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-09


ed in syncopated music. but in this
work Of Couchois h rag effect was
in the melody which prang
from the crude Instruments OF the
Dahomeyans. The words written by
James O'Dea are as follows:
DowR On the levee where the not
coons1l congregate
Came a swell niger direct from a
Southern state.
Mixed in society. dead swell variety.
Envied 10y nlggers who rated Them
selves great:
All coons assembled in fear just trem-
bled
When this big bully coon would get
up and state. well. I guess.
No coon is ever one-half so warm.
Been so ever since I was born,
Muss me and I'll sure raise a storm.
Don't care II IL isn't good form.
Dead gone on all h wenches, 1
know:
They Just can't resist me. and so
Keep on a-movin' or III be a-provin'
There's no coon that's one-half so
warm.
That Is a fair sample of the modern
coon song. Ii Is full of rough work"
or the promise of 1t. The colored man
OF the 'levee" and the crap game and
the razor and the police station is the
hero. Most OF these n are short
lived. They crowd one another so
rapidly that the newcomer has the call
unless the air Is of exceptional merit.
Three OF four months is a long life for
a coon song-that is. as a seller. the
standpoint from which the publishers
judge.
In the new songs there Is noticeable
a great dearth of the working girl
songs which had UGH a great run a
few years ago.. the waltz song and re-
fraiDs' which used to keep the or
chestras busy at North Sid Turner
hall dances. These and the rough"
Irish songs about the fight at the
christening. the III Not Go Out With
Reilly Any More" songs. seem to have
dropped out of sight for the moment.
All the composers are devoting their
time to writing rag melodies n are
neglecting the honest working girl
who supports her mother in a~ffiuence
on $3.50 a week and also the ranting.
tearing Irishman. found only in songs,
who takes a keen delight in hitting
his closest friend with half a brick.
But hat Johnnie Carroll and a few
other singers of this latter class of
songs might not put out of the bust
ness, there Is one new Irish song on
the stocks telling all abovt McCarthy's
party, that old thread-bare theme,
part OF the chorus like this:
"You all know Doyle. that fougnt
Maguire's dog? (Wedo.")
And Kennedy, the fightin' man that
comes from Kerry bog. tHuroo.)
/ wouldn't MISS the party for a hun
dred dollars bright. (Bing! Bling!
BingD
There'n be murder there tonight
The bling, bling. bling" part is sup
posed to be done by the singer strik-
ing the stage with the cane which all
well regulated stage Irishmen carry,
or by the gang shifting the bar with
their open palms IL the song is sune
in a saloon. For the soubrette who
must have a waltz song with a re-
frain which she sings while swinging
back and forth in time to the music
there is a song called "Sweet Mamie
Daley" and is written by Jack Fay
and James Il. oliver. This young lady
is no relation to Sweet Mamie Reilly
This is what Mr.. Fay thinks abou'
Mamie:
In all the world you'll never find a!
lair a sight to see
AS my girl. Mamie Daley. when She!
walking out with me:
She's dressed as fine as any belle, hel
form and face divine;
I'm thrilled all through with pride anC
JOY when l think this queen IL
mine
(Refrain)-
Sweet Mamie Daley. say you'l be true
In all this world, dear. ] love but you.
Some day not far away you'll be my
bride.
Then through life. my darling. we viii
drift side by side.
Chicago Chronicle.