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Subject: Re: Old Song My Mom Sang - OMG MINE TOO.

Author:
Nils Samuels

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Date Posted: 04:39:48 11/12/03 Wed
In reply to: MJ 's message, "Re: Old Song My Mom Sang - OMG MINE TOO." on 01:06:44 09/09/03 Tue

>>OMG, I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS SONG HAS BEEN HAUNTING
>SOMEONE ELSE. I AGREE IT'S NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT,
>BUT I STILL WANT TO READ ALL THE LYRICS.
>
>MY MOTHER WAS RAISED IN A CATHOLIC ORPHANAGE RUN BY
>GERMAN NUNS IN CHICAGO, 1910-1929.
>
>SHE SANG THIS SAME SONG TO ME.
>
>ONLY SHE MADE IT A GIRL.
>
>I BELIEVE THE NAME OF THE SONG IS "THE GARDEN GATE".
>
>THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT PART WAS MAMMY CALLED HER
>CHILD A "CURLEY HEADED PICKEN-NINNY"
>
>Here are some of the words i remember;
>
>"Morning glories growing on the garden gate at home...
>
>Curley headed picken-ninny, coming home so late,
>crying cause her little heart is broke.
>
>all the children laughing and playing .....
>
>(Mammy says) Stay in your own back yard, no matter
>what the other children say."
>
>---------------------------
>PLEASE EMAIL ME AND MAYBE WE CAN PIECE THE WORDS
>TOGETHER.
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

The song is "Stay in Your Own Backyard" by Karl Kennett
and Lyn Udall, 1899. Sheet music available at http://memory.loc.gov/award/rpbaasm/1000/1001/100101v.jpg.
And the lyrics are here:
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/display.pl?record=144.021.000&pages=4

Here are some of the lyrics:

Lilac trees a bloomin� in the garden by the gate
Mammy in her little cabin door
Curly headed picanniny comin� home so late
Cryin� cuz his little heart is sore

All the children playing round
Have skins so white and fair
None of them with him would ever play
So mammy in her lap, took that weeping little chap
And says in her kind old way

Now honey you stay in your own backyard
Don't mind what dem white chiles do
What show you suppose dey's a gwine to gib
A black little coon like you

So stay on dis side of de high board fence
and honey don' you cry so hard
Go out and a play just as much as you please
But stay in yo own backyard

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