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I Want My Black Baby Back/ All I Wants Is My Black Baby Back
Old-Time Breakdown by Tom Daly and Gus Edwards, Southeast;
ARTIST: Walter Couch and Wilkes Ramblers from Roots of American Fiddle Tunes- Couch, Walter; and the Wilkes Ramblers. It'll Never Happen Again. Old Time String Bands, Vol. 1, Marimac 9110, Cas (198?), cut# 11
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: 1898 Tom Daly and Gus Edwards
RECORDING INFO: Couch, Walter; and the Wilkes Ramblers. It'll Never Happen Again. Old Time String Bands, Vol. 1, Marimac 9110, Cas (198?), cut# 11
OTHER NAMES: All I Wants Is My Black Baby Back
SOURCES: Roots of American Fiddle Tunes; Meade
NOTES: This song was recorded in 1937 by Walter Couch and Wilkes Ramblers recorded for Bluebird in the 1930’s. They also did an instrumental entitled Chesapeake Bay on Bluebird B - 7252 November 1937. Listen to them at Honkingduck online.
The first country recording was done by the Carolina Twins (David Fletcher and Gwen Foster) for Victor in 1929.
"All I Wants Is My Black Baby Back" is a song by Tom Daly and Gus Edwards written in 1898. The song was recorded by Aurther Collins in 1899 (Ber 0756) and by Dan Quinn for Edison about the same time.
Hambone's side tracked, ain't that a shame
Why don't you get your lady of your own
All that I want is my black baby back
Anywhere I hang my hat is home sweet home
I have been lingering for a while
Yes I can hold you for a while
So pack your bags and go
And don't you come no more
For I live in this house till I die
I went to an animal fair
And the birds and the bees were there
But the old racoon by the light of the moon
And so many animals there
Oh the monkey he got drunk
And fell on the elephant's trunk
But the elephant sneezed then fell to his knees
Then he went bum, bum, bum, bum
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