Shuffle Along - If You've Never Been Vamped by a Brown Skin Lyrics

2016 Broadway revival
Shuffle Along the Musical - If You've Never Been Vamped by a Brown Skin Lyrics

SAM PECK:
Deacon Birch of Mt. Zion Church
Was hailed up into court.
He was brought in by his wife, I think,
And charged with non-support.

A sealskin brown with jet-black hair
Caused Deac’ to lose his head.
And when the judge called Deac’ to speak,
Dese am the words he said:

If you’ve never been vamped by a brownskin,
You’ve never been vamped at all,
For the vampingest vamp is a brownskin.
Believe me now, that ain’t no stall.
A high brown gal will make you break out of jail,
A choc’late brown will make a tadpole smack a whale,
But a pretty sealskin brown,
I mean one long and tall,
Would make the silent Sphinx out in the desert bawl.
If you’ve never been vamped by a brownskin,
You’ve never been vamped at all.

Shuffle Along the Musical Lyrics

Election Day
I'm Simply Full of Jazz
Love Will Find a Way
Bandana Days
In Honeysuckle Time
Gypsy Blues
Shuffle Along
I'm Just Wild About Harry
Sing Me to Sleep, Dear Mammy
Ain't It a Shame?
Good Night Angeline
If You've Never Been Vamped by a Brown Skin
Uncle Tom and Old Black Joe
Everything Reminds Me of You
Oriental Blues
I Am Craving for That Kind of Love
Low Down Blues
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