X:5
T:De Sugar Cane Green. Roose.0790
M:6/8
L:1/8
Q:3/8=100
Q:"Andante"
B:J.Roose MS, Manchester, c1850
Z:Village Music Project. John Gibbons, 9/2019
K:G
d | d2 d (d^cd) | ed^c d2B | G2 G GFG | A3 D2 d |
d2 d (d^cd) | (ed^c) d2e | (fgf) eB^c | d3-d2 ||
d | {f}e2d {f}e2d | (e3 d2) d | ^c2 c cde | d3-d2 d |
d2 B GBd | g2f e2f | g2B e2d| G3 G2 g |
g2f Ace | e2d GBd | e2 d e2d | cBA Bdg |
g2f Ace | e2d GBd | e2f g2 G/A/ | B2A G2|]
DE SUGAR CANE GREEN. AKA and see "Ivy Green." American, Minstrel Song (6/8 time). "De Sugar Cane Green" was in the repertory of the Ethiopian Minstrels in the mid-1840's. The racist dialect words, printed on a broadside that proclaimed "As sung by de colored society in general" [1] , begin:
Come niggas and listen to dis darkey child, I was born on de Ohio ribber,
My moder’s a cook, an she raosted and bil’d, An she tought me to be a good libber; For hoe cake and gumbo she had not her match, And for homminy no one could match her; Of brothers and sisters I had quite a bath, But she lub’d and married a butcher Den I used to creep whar no darkey was seen,
To sucked juice of de sugar cane green.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Christy's and White's Ethiopian melodies : containing two hundred and ninety-one of the best and most popular and approved Ethiopian Melodies (1854).
