Teaching The Quarry in Context

Chapter X

“Donald sat down at the organ and ran over the accompaniment of the piece of music which [Maime] had brought with her. It was a lyric by Ernest Hogan, at that time a popular Negro song writer, whose song `All Coons Look Alike to Me’, had been a musical best seller which had broken all preexisting records.” (p. 72)
For more on the character of Maime Wilson, see Chapter XX.

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Lyrics to the song “All Coons Look Alike to Me”

 

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