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Pickin' On Your Baby

by Sarah Spencer

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Recorded remotely by all during the COVID -19 lockdowns by
Sarah Spencer's Global Ramblers - a truly international group of world-class musicians.

lyrics

Verse:
Mammy why, this pickaninny
Crying to, his mammy Ginny
Do the white boys pick on me
And they never let me be
And I must, not play in their yards
Ain’t I just as nice as they are
They won’t let me in their games
And they call me names

Chorus:
Why are they pickin on your baby
Cos I’m a pickaninny rose
Mammy don’t they know
That they should not treat me so
Why don’t they know that every dark cloud
Inside’s a silvery light
Mammy why are they pickin on me
All the time
Oh won’t you tell them all about me
That I’m the sweetest rose that grows
That’s what you said
And I suppose you know (now ain’t that so)
Day by day in every way, when they get together
They go from bad to worse, instead of getting better
Are they pickin on your baby
Cos I’m a pickaninny rose

credits

released March 17, 2021
Sarah Spencer - vocal
Sarah Spencer - soprano saxophone
Sarah Spencer - tenor saxophone
Hugh Crozier - piano
Jim Swinnerton - string bass
Hal Smith - drums

Composed by Paul V. Reynolds & Billy James, 1925

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Sarah Spencer UK

George H. Buck, Jr.,: "Sarah plays tenor sax in the true New Orleans style of that instrument. It is nice to hear a lady who has assimilated so much of the New Orleans feeling and tradition and she is a fine blues singer in the classic tradition. New Orleans jazz fans have long considered her to be one of the finest saxophonists in the New Orleans tradition and now she added the Classic Blues" ... more

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