Annotation:Sugar Cane Green (De)
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.
