Ev'rybody Calls Me Honey

DESCRIPTION: "Met a little pickaninny, Wand'ring down the street one day... Someone asked him what is name was...." "Ev'rybody calls me honey, Don't know why they do, Maybe it's because my Mammy calls me honey too." No one knows his name, but he's like a rose
AUTHOR: Words: Joe Lyons / Music: Charley Straight (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1919 (sheet music published by Forster Music Publisher Inc., Chicafi)
KEYWORDS: children | name
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
RECORDINGS:
Nora Bayes, "Ev'rybody Calls Me Honey" (Columbia A2816, 1919)
Nicola "Aunt Nicky" Pritchard (Turbyfill), "Ev'rybody Calls Me Honey" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #22, recorded 10/28/2020)
NOTES [37 words]: This is truly a curiosity: it refers to a "pickaninny," but without disapprove -- indeed, the cover shows an elegant White woman smiling at the Black boy. Other than the offensive language, I see no sign of prejudice. - RBW
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