Only Just A Little Yaller Coon

Performer: Estella Mann

Issue Number: Berliner 3679

Release year: 1899

Source: UCSB Library

Subjects: Berliner Gramophone: 1895-1900

Letra adaptada:

Dah´s a mighty heap ob truble Brewin down in Tennessee

And its all about a little yaller coon.

Now dis little pickaninny was a black as he could be

On de mornin he was born de fust ob June

Now de caus ob dis commotion was de fact dat ober night,

Exactly on de fullness on de moon

Dat dis little pickaninny changed his skin from black to white

In de morn dey found a little yaller coon.

Eb´ry darkey in de county came to see de wond´rous sight

When dey heard about dis little yaller coon.

And dey rolled dere eyes to heaben

And declar´d he would be white

Cause his skin changed at de fullness ob de moon.

But at last his mammy stated that she had a pow´full fright,

On de evenin dat dis little coon was born

For an old white rooster warned her by his crowin in de night

Dat her honey boy would be a yaller coon.

Sleeping by the fire in his mammy´s arms,

While she sings to him this tune.

Honey don´t yer cry, wipe yer shiny eye,

You´se ´gwine to be a little yaller coon.

Nebber mind yer color if yer heart aint black.

Better days am comin soon.

Wipe yer shiny eye, you´ll always live and die

Only just a little yaller coon.