Aunt Jemima's Plaster - Minstrel Banjo2024-03-29T01:03:21Zhttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/forum/topics/aunt-jemima-s-plaster?commentId=2477478%3AComment%3A68159&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThat's pretty interesting Sil…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2012-05-31:2477478:Comment:681592012-05-31T12:06:28.751ZDave Culganhttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/OlDanTucker
<p>That's pretty interesting Silas, and another example of how these song themes develop over time. I sing a set of lyrics to the Brigg's tune "Pitch Burgundy Plaster" that deal with this same thing, a "stickin' plaster" so strong it would "draw a load of cotton" . I got the lyrics from one of the black face comedies we did years ago (in black face). I'd post the lyrics but I don't have them handy. Let's see the chorus went:</p>
<p>Sheep skin, beeswax, burgundy pitch and tar. Debble couldn't…</p>
<p>That's pretty interesting Silas, and another example of how these song themes develop over time. I sing a set of lyrics to the Brigg's tune "Pitch Burgundy Plaster" that deal with this same thing, a "stickin' plaster" so strong it would "draw a load of cotton" . I got the lyrics from one of the black face comedies we did years ago (in black face). I'd post the lyrics but I don't have them handy. Let's see the chorus went:</p>
<p>Sheep skin, beeswax, burgundy pitch and tar. Debble couldn't pull it off when you put it dar.</p>
<p><br/>Now its coming to me:</p>
<p>There was a wench lived down our way who had a stickin' plaster</p>
<p>She sold so many every day she got as rich as master</p>
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<p>This plaster was so very strong t'would draw a load of cotton</p>
<p>Would draw a tooth with seven prongs if your teeth was gettin rotten.</p>
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<p>One day Miss Phoebe she went dead and you might'nt believe my story,</p>
<p>That plaster was so bery strong it drawed her up to glory.</p>
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<p>Something like that. I never in my life had heard the term sticking plaster for something like a "bandaid" but I suppose they were still called that not too long ago and maybe still are in some places.</p>
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