Georgia Camp Meeting
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Kerrie Mills
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
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Lyrics:
A camp meeting took place
By the colored race
Way down in Georgia
There were coons large and small
Lanky, lean, fat and tall
At this great coon camp-meeting
When church was out
How the “Sisters” did shout
They were so happy
But the young folks were tired
And wished to be inspired
And hired a big brass band.
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When that band of darkies began to play
Pretty music so gay
Hats were then thrown away
Thought them foolish coons
Their necks would break
When they quit laughing and talking
And went to walking
For a big choc’late cake.
The old “Sisters” raised sand
When they first heard the band
Way down in Georgia.
The preacher did rare
And the deacons did stare
At the young darkies prancing.
The band played so sweet
That nobody could eat
‘Twas so entrancing.
So the church folks agree’d
‘Twas not a sinful deed
And joined in with the rest.
"Georgia Camp Meeting", originally published as "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" is a<br> ragtime cake-Walk was composed in 1897 by Frederick Allen Mills (who wrote under the name<br> Kerry Mills) who also composed "Red Wing", "Whistling Rufus" and <br> his tribute to the 1904 World’s Fair, “Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis”.<br> Kerry Mills (1869-1948) published the song in 1897 to be played as a cakewalk, two-step or<br> polka. Mills was "steeped in the strong march tradition of the 19th century"<br> and others identify that he helped bridge the two-step dance and the emerging<br> styles of cakewalk and early ragtime.<br> A cake walk is a type of tune associated with a popular dance<br> craze which probably entered southern tradition around the turn of the century.<br> The colony of Georgia was named in honor of King George II in 1732. <br> The tune was recorded by Tump Spangler on The Old Virginia Fiddlers:...Patrick County, Virginia,<br> Leake County Revelers on Saturday Night Breakdown: 1927-1930 Recordings (1975),<br> Alan Jabbour, James Reed, Bertram Levy on A Henry Reed Reunion (2002) and<br> John Phillip Sousa and band on Cakewalks, Rags and Blues (1908).<br>
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