{"id":3584,"date":"2013-07-22T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T03:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2013-07-26T20:45:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T03:45:55","slug":"c-a-prettyman-barber-and-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/c-a-prettyman-barber-and-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"C.A. Prettyman, barber and singer, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rockwell_1936_Quartet\"<\/a>My uncle Dan surprised me with a wonderful historical tidbit about my great-grandfather, Charles Austin (C.A.) Prettyman. In addition to being a barber as a young man (read more here<\/a>), he was apparently also a talented singer and a songwriter. And what’s more, at least two of the songs he wrote survive today in the memory of my uncle.<\/p>\n

My uncle is a talented musician with a great voice, and his father before him was also musically gifted, having sung throughout his life including, my uncle tells me, being part of a barbershop quartet. It makes me wonder if C.A. was also in a barbershop quartet, and just how far back this Prettyman musical talent extends. Did it start with C.A., or was C.A. continuing a tradition that his father, Alfred Minus Prettyman, passed to him?<\/p>\n

My uncle is planning to record these two songs for me, and he’s just sent me the words to Charlie’s two songs. I’d like to share those with you.<\/p>\n

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Here are the lyrics that my uncle sent me to two songs that Charles Austin Prettyman wrote and sang:<\/p>\n

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Saloon<\/h1>\n

Saloon, saloon, saloon
\nIt runs through my head like a tune
\nNow I don\u2019t like caf\u00e9s
\nAnd I hate cabarets
\nBut mention saloon
\nAnd my head\u2019s in a daze.
\nFor it brings back such fond recollections
\nOf a smoky old oak sitting room
\nWith a bar and a rail
\nAnd a dime and a pail
\nSaloon, saloon, saloon<\/p>\n

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Say Cuspidor<\/h1>\n

Say cuspidor and not spittoon
\nDon\u2019t spit too far
\nOr yet too soon
\nIt\u2019s better for
\nNot to spit at all
\nThan to spit too far
\nAnd spot the wall<\/p>\n

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I can’t wait until I hear them in their intended 3- or 4-part harmonies!<\/p>\n

Read more in part two of this post<\/a>…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My uncle Dan surprised me with a wonderful historical tidbit about my great-grandfather, Charles Austin (C.A.) Prettyman. In addition to being a barber as a young man (read more here), he was apparently also a talented singer and a songwriter. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[40,39,217,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1910s","category-1920s","category-barber","category-charles-austin-prettyman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}