Lyrics:
First verse
Although it's not my color. I'm feeling mighty blue; I've got a lot of trouble, I'll tell it all to you; I'm certainly clean disgusted With life and that's a fact. Because my hair is woolly And because my color's black. My gal, she took a notion Against the colored race, She said if I would win her I'd have to change my face; She said if she should wed me, That she'd regret it soon, And now I'm shook, yes, good and hard, Because I am a coon
Refrain
Coon! Coon! Coon! I wish my color would fade; Coon! Coon! Coon! I'd like a different shade Coon! Coon! Coon! Morning, night and noon, I wish I was a white man ‘Stead of a Coon! Coon! Coon! Coon! Coon! Coon! I wish my color would fade; Coon! Coon! Coon! I'd like a different shade Coon! Coon! Coon! Morning, night and noon, I wish I was a white man ‘Stead of a Coon! Coon! Coon!
Second verse
I had my face enameled, I had my hair made straight, I dressed up like a white man, And cert’nly did look great; Then started out to see her, Just shortly after dark, But on the way to meet my babe I had to cross a park; Just as I was a-thinking I had things fixed up right, I passed a tree where two doves Sat making love at night; They stopped and looked me over, I saw my finish soon, When both those birds said good and loud, “Coo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oon.”
(Refrain)
