====== #1113 - High Born Lady ======
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  *Composer:
    *Barney Fagan (1850-1937), 1886
    *arr. ++Gustave Luders|{{search>"Gustave Luders" @cobs}}++ (1865-1913), 1896
  *Also known as:
    *My Gal Is A High Born Lady
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
Thar is gwine to be a festival this evenin',\\
And a gatherin' of color mighty rare;\\
Thar'll be noted individuals of prominent distinctiveness,\\
To permeate the colored atmosphere;\\
Sunny Africa's Four Hundred's gwine to be thar,\\
To do honor to my lovely fiancée;\\
Thar will be a grand ovation of especial ostentation,\\
When the parson gives the dusky bride away!\\
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//chorus: //\\
My gal is a high-born lady,\\
She's black but not too shady,\\
Feathered like a peacock, just as gay;\\
She is not colored, she was born that way.\\
I'm proud of my black Venus,\\
No coon can come between us.\\
'Long the line they can't outshine\\
This high-born gal of mine!\\
//(repeat chorus)//\\
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When the preacher man propounds the vital question,\\
"Does ye' take the gal for better of for wuss?,"\\
I will feel as if my soul had left my body, gone to glory,\\
And I know my heart will make an awful fuss.\\
I anticipates a very funny feelin',\\
Nigger's eyeballs like a diamond sure to shine;\\
But I'll bask in honeyed clover when the ceremony's over\\
And I press the ruby lips of baby mine!\\
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    *Barney Fagan (1850-1937), 1886