[Dixielandjazz] Lyrics for "Oh Mo'nah"

[Don]

Yeah, I think Don got it.  When I was a kid in the '40's one of my 
friend's mother's name was Mona, and the family used to tease her about 
the song.

Don Robertson

dingle at baldwin-net.com wrote:

> Bill Gunter wrote:
>
>> Hi Louis and all,
>>
>> You wrote:
>>
>>> I am looking for the lyrics of this tune.  I am not sure about the
>>> spelling of the title - "Oh Mona", "Oh Monah" or "Oh Mo'nah" - I've 
>>> seen
>>> the 3 of them!  I just have a recording from Nat Gonella and is 
>>> really a
>>> great entertainement tune :) You can put everybody singing!
>>
>>
>>
>> Just guessing here . . . but are you possibly thinking about the song 
>> "San?"
>>
>> The chorus lyrics are:
>>
>> Oh, sweetheart Lona, My darling Lona,
>> Why have you gone away?
>> You said you loved me, but if you loved me
>> Why did you act this way?
>>
>> If I had ever been untrue to you
>> What you have done would be the thing to do.
>> But my heart aches, dear, and it will break, dear
>> If you don't come back home again to San.
>>
>> . . . There's more - the song has a verse and another chorus but this 
>> is enough to give you the idea.
>>
>> On the other hand there may be a song about "Oh Mo'nah" -- but I 
>> don't know what it is.
>>
>> Respectfully submitted,
>>
>> Bill "King San of Senagal" Gunter
>> jazzboard at hotmail.com
>>
>>
>>
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> No - Oh Moanh was written by bassist Country Wahsburne and goes 
> somethinglike this:
>
> Verse:
> Was out behind the Hen House on my knees
> When I  thought I heard a chicken sneeze
> He sneezed so hard with a whoop and cough
> That I thought he'd sneeze his head right off
>
> Chorus:
>
> Oh Monah, you will be free
> Oh Monah you will be free
> When the Good Lord Set you you Free.
>
> There ar emore verses each followied by the chorus.
>
> It is a take off on old "colored" ( to use an archaic term) religious 
> hymn.
> Country was from South Texas, and worked with the elusive Peck Kelly, 
> later with Ted Weems and then studio work in CA.
>
> Best I can do onshort notice.
>
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