I GOT MINE (COON SONG)

Created on 28/10/2003
Latest update on 30/01/2024

Artist: Collins & Natus
Author: John Queen/Charlie Cartwell
Label: Monarch
Year: 1902

Arthur Collins & Joe Natus; song with black lingo (and racist undertones) used both in vaudeville and the minstrel show circuit. Sung by whites and blacks alike, both with blackened faces. Reissued on cd Crazy As A Loon - Coon Songs And Darky Specialities 1897-1910 (Phonozoic). Sheet music first published by Howley, Haviland & Dresser.

Covers:

1924:

Fiddlin' John Carson

1926:

Big Boy George Owens [as The Coon Crap Game]

1926:

Skillet Lickers

1927:

John McGhee

1928:

Frank Stokes

1930:

Barbecue Bob [as The Crap Game; with Charlie Hicks]

1950:

Pink Anderson

1966:

Jim Kweskin

1974:

Roy Book Binder

1976:

Ry Cooder

1977:

Dan Hicks

2008:

Little Pink Anderson

Written around 1901 by John Queen (white) from New Orleans. Crap game was prohibited and so everybody split soon as the heat fell in, in this case leaving a considerable amount of money on the card table, grabbed by the last one to leave; I got mine!

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