The Traveling Minstrel Show Lyrics

My mama did her dance while daddy played freelance

They were all in a circle of circumstance

"Begin the overture" the MC said with style

Then they did their thing and the people all went wild

George Christy played a female while Stephen Foster sang a song

Long before the Gong Show they could do no wrong

"My Old Kentucky Home" was surely so pretty

And the "Suwannee River" flowed through New York City, yeah

They loved to tour the Southland

With the Steely Dan they were one fine band

And they all played banjo to make that dough

It was a crazy world, the traveling minstrel show

Across old Dixie and all the other places

They sang Polly Wolly Doodle and the Camptown Races

Now there's no more melodies and no more rhymes

Just a lot of ugly words about all their crimes

I miss the old days of my mama and my dad

But I listen to their music, feel the magic they once had

Now it's all digital and the minstrel's all but gone

What's live today, its just one big yawn