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Sheet music cover page for 'Shoo Fly' (1869) by Thomas Wilson

'Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Me!' is a minstrel show song from the 1860s that has remained popular since that time. It was sung by soldiers during the Spanish–American War of 1898, when flies and the yellow fever mosquito were a serious enemy. Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album Join Bing and Sing Along (1959). Today, it is commonly sung by children, and has been recorded on many children's records, including Disney Children's Favorite Songs 3, performed by Larry Groce and the Disneyland Children's Sing-Along Chorus.

Composition[edit]

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The song's origin was reported in an anonymously written 1895 New York Herald article on the history of minstrel show dancing. That article credits a female Afro-Caribbean singer with bringing 'Shoo Fly' to the U.S., where it was adopted and altered by various blackface performers: 'Shoo-Fly' is said to have come originally from the Isthmus of Panama, where the negroes sang 'Shoo Fly' and 'Don't Bodder Me' antiphonally while at their work. A negro from there, Helon Johnson, took it first to California and taught the song to 'Billy' Birch [a performer with the San Francisco Minstrels troupe]. ‘Dick’ Carroll and others also had versions of it which they performed. Delehanty and Hengler had theirs, too, and used to sing it as an encore with Bryant’s Minstrels, slipping on old dresses over their heads in the interim of the score. It was from hearing them that ‘Dave’ [Reed] and ‘Dan’ [Bryant] fancied he song. ‘Dave’ fixed it up with a dance, and original version thereof. It was rehearsed secretly, and when the time came they ‘sprang it’ on ‘the boys’ of the company one evening in public, with ‘Come and Kiss Me’ as an encore. It was a howling success from the start, and ‘Dan’ Bryant had printed the next day at the Herald office twenty thousand notices, which he gave to the company and others to scatter about the town wherever they went. Horse shoes with a fly on them were put in odd and conspicuous places, even on the telegraph wires, and in no time the public was crazy over the act and 'business was great.' E.M. Hall has a version with a more elaborate and an excellent chorus, ending 'Shoo Fly, &c., 'Go 'way, fly, I'll cut your wing.”' [1]. Despite multiple competing claims to composition of 'Shoo Fly,' it does seem Bryant's Minstrels, as described in the Herald account, was the first group to popularize the song, in 1869-70.[2][3]

'Shoo Fly' is among the songs ('John Brown's Body' is another) claimed as compositions by T. Brigham Bishop.[4] According to Bishop's account, he wrote 'Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me' during the Civil War while assigned to command a company of black soldiers. One of the soldiers, dismissing some remarks of his fellow soldiers, exclaimed 'Shoo fly, don't bother me,' which inspired Bishop to write the song, including in the lyrics the unit's designation, 'Company G'. Bishop claimed that the song was 'pirated' from him, and that he made little money from it.[2] Bishop published a sheet music version of the song in 1869 (White, Smith & Perry). That version includes the caption, 'Original Copy and Only Authorized Edition.'[5]

Other sources have credited Billy Reeves (lyrics) and Frank Campbell, or Rollin Howard, with the song.[6] An early publication appeared as 'Shew! Fly, Don't Bother Me. Comic Song and Dance or Walk Round. Sung by Cool Burgess and Rollin Howard, melody by Frank Campbell, words by Billy Reeves, arr. by Rollin Howard.' [7][8]

Lyrics[edit]

The lyrics are public domain:[9]

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Shoo, fly, don't bother me,
Shoo, fly, don't bother me,
Shoo, fly, don't bother me,
For I belong to somebody.
I feel, I feel, I feel like a morning star,
I feel, I feel, I feel like a morning star.
Oh, shoo, fly, don't bother me,
Shoo, fly, don't bother me,
Shoo, fly, don't bother me,
For I belong to somebody.

The lyrics have been altered to remove content from the original song long considered offensive, so that today only the chorus is sung. The original version reads thus:[7]

You belong to me documentary


The

I think I hear the angels sing,
I think I hear the angels sing,
I think I hear the angels sing,
The angels now are on the wing.
I feel, I feel, I feel,
That's what my mother said,
The angels pouring 'lasses down,
Upon this nigger's head.
Shew! fly, don't bother me,
Shew! fly, don't bother me,
Shew! fly, don't bother me,
I belong to Comp'ny G.
I feel, I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star,
I feel, I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star.
I feel, I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star.
I feel, I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star.
If I sleep in the sun this nigger knows,
If I sleep in the sun this nigger knows,
If I sleep in the sun this nigger knows,
A fly come sting him on the nose.
I feel, I feel, I feel,
That's what my mother said,
Whenever this nigger goes to sleep,
He must cover up his head.
Shew! fly, don't bother me,
Shew! fly, don't bother me,
Shew! fly, don't bother me,
I belong to Comp'ny G.
I feel, I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star,
I feel, I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star.
I feel, I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star.
I feel, I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star.

In popular culture[edit]

During a dinner table scene in the 1992 teen comedy Encino Man, Stoney Brown (Pauly Shore) quietly sings 'Shoo Fly' while Link (Brendan Fraser) tracks a fly around the room.

In the 1998 Disney/Pixar film A Bug's Life, Francis the Ladybug references the song's title. The Australian children's show Play School recorded a version for the albums There's A Bear In There, sung by Noni Hazlehurst, and In The Car, sung by John Hamblin.

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See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ New York Herald, August 11, 1895, Section Four, p. 2. https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/New%20York%20NY%20Herald/New%20York%20NY%20Herald%201895/New%20York%20NY%20Herald%201895%20-%204814.pdf
  2. ^ ab(8 November 1905). The Author of 'Shoo Fly', Reading Eagle (stating that T. Allston Brown, had vouched for this account)
  3. ^Cropsey, Eugene H. Crosby's Opera House: symbol of Chicago's cultural awakening, p. 270 (1999)
  4. ^'Music: Hymn from Maine'. Time. 1935-07-01. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  5. ^Shoo Fly, Duke University library collection
  6. ^The blue book of Tin Pan Alley, p. 9 (1965)
  7. ^ ab'Shew! Fly, Don't Bother Me' Words and music: T. Brigham Bishop (?); pub.:White, Smith & Perry, Boston, 1869.
  8. ^Eric Partridge and Paul Beale, A Dictionary of Catch Phrases: British and American, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day, pp. 408–409. Published by Routledge, 1986, SBN 041505916X, 9780415059169.
  9. ^'Grandparents.com - For Grandparents, Parents & Grandchildren'. Grandparentsmagazine.net. Retrieved 2012-03-09.

External links[edit]

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Release Name: The_Flys-Today_Belongs_To_Me_The_Complete_Recordings_1977-1980-Remastered-2CD-FLAC-2019-THEVOiD
Artist: The Flys
Album: Today Belongs To Me: The Complete Recordings 1977-1980
Genre: New Wave
Year: 2019
Tracks: 27
Duration: 02:37:30
Size: 1.02 GB

Two CD collection. After witnessing the Birmingham leg of The Clash's White Riot tour in the spring of 1977, Coventry rock band Midnight Circus adopted a more streamlined, urgent sound and a more punk-friendly name. As The Flys, they issued a self-financed five-track EP at the end of the year before signing with EMI on the back of a tour with Buzzcocks. Over the next three years, The Flys were responsible for a dazzling run of witty, supremely melodic, endlessly inventive singles and two superb albums, Waikiki Beach Refugees and Own, with the latter standing some 40 years later as the Great Lost Album of the pop-punk era. However, a lack of commercial success and endless internal bickering saw guitarist, singer and chief songwriter Neil O'Connor pull the plug in mid-1980 to join sister Hazel during her rise to prominence with the film Breaking Glass. Today Belongs To Me is the first complete anthology of a band that, despite critical acclaim and major label support, somehow fell through the cracks. It includes every known studio recording - including that early pre-EMI EP - as well as nine previously unreleased, from-the-masters studio demos, with two early versions of 1979 single 'Living In The Sticks' joined by seven previously-unheard late '70s songs in the classic Flys tradition. Today Belongs To Me is the definitive document of the greatest pop-punk band never to score a Top Thirty single.


Tracklist:

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  1. The Flys - We Don't Mind The Rave - 2:58 (955 kbps , 20.28 MB)
  2. The Flys - Beverley - 3:13 (860 kbps , 19.78 MB)
  3. The Flys - Looking For New Hearts - 4:04 (997 kbps , 29 MB)
  4. The Flys - She's The One - 2:02 (853 kbps , 12.45 MB)
  5. The Flys - Monsoon City - 3:15 (841 kbps , 19.58 MB)
  6. The Flys - Fun City - 3:05 (952 kbps , 21.05 MB)
  7. The Flys - Don't Moonlight On Me - 2:17 (958 kbps , 15.61 MB)
  8. The Flys - Some Kind Of Girl - 4:46 (965 kbps , 32.9 MB)
  9. The Flys - I Don't Know - 3:04 (993 kbps , 21.81 MB)
  10. The Flys - Waikiki Beach Refugees - 3:43 (950 kbps , 25.27 MB)
  11. The Flys - Saturday Sunrine - 2:57 (962 kbps , 20.26 MB)
  12. The Flys - Dark Nights - 3:10 (900 kbps , 20.4 MB)
  13. The Flys - Love And A Molotov Cocktail (Bonus Track) - 2:31 (978 kbps , 17.58 MB)
  14. The Flys - Can I Crash Here? (Bonus Track) - 1:51 (950 kbps , 12.59 MB)
  15. The Flys - Me And My Buddies (Bonus Track) - 2:39 (952 kbps , 18.05 MB)
  16. The Flys - Just For Your Sex (Bonus Track) - 2:07 (910 kbps , 13.75 MB)
  17. The Flys - Civilization (Bonus Track) - 2:28 (994 kbps , 17.54 MB)
  18. The Flys - Fun City (Single Version) (Bonus Track) - 3:07 (1007 kbps , 22.45 MB)
  19. The Flys - E.C.4 (Bonus Track) - 2:09 (966 kbps , 14.89 MB)
  20. The Flys - Waikiki Beach Refugees (Single Version) (Bonus Track) - 3:48 (959 kbps , 26 MB)
  21. The Flys - Beverley (Edited Single Version) (Bonus Track) - 2:28 (920 kbps , 16.23 MB)
  22. The Flys - Name Dropping (Bonus Track) - 3:51 (928 kbps , 25.55 MB)
  23. The Flys - Fly V. Fly (Bonus Track) - 3:42 (815 kbps , 21.55 MB)
  24. The Flys - Adrian (Don't Call Me Jimmy) (Bonus Track) - 2:12 (926 kbps , 14.52 MB)
  25. The Flys - I'll Survive (Bonus Track) - 4:09 (879 kbps , 26.12 MB)
  26. The Flys - Living In The Sticks (First Demo Version) (Bonus Track) - 2:59 (930 kbps , 19.83 MB)
  27. The Flys - Let's Drive - 2:27 (907 kbps , 15.86 MB)
  28. The Flys - Energy Boy - 2:52 (913 kbps , 18.72 MB)
  29. The Flys - Fascinate Me - 2:14 (923 kbps , 14.7 MB)
  30. The Flys - Talking To The Wall - 2:14 (924 kbps , 14.71 MB)
  31. The Flys - 16 Down - 3:35 (887 kbps , 22.77 MB)
  32. The Flys - Fortunes - 2:12 (918 kbps , 14.48 MB)
  33. The Flys - Night Creatures - 2:45 (904 kbps , 17.75 MB)
  34. The Flys - When 2 And 5 Make 9 - 2:40 (834 kbps , 15.94 MB)
  35. The Flys - Undercover Agent Zero - 2:40 (893 kbps , 17.08 MB)
  36. The Flys - Cheap Days - 2:45 (909 kbps , 17.89 MB)
  37. The Flys - Walking The Streets - 3:10 (969 kbps , 21.95 MB)
  38. The Flys - Through The Windscreen - 2:38 (877 kbps , 16.51 MB)
  39. The Flys - Freezing - 2:54 (878 kbps , 18.2 MB)
  40. The Flys - Frenzy Is 23 - 2:48 (914 kbps , 18.31 MB)
  41. The Flys - We Are The Lucky Ones (Bonus Track) - 3:07 (945 kbps , 21.05 MB)
  42. The Flys - Living In The Sticks (Bonus Track) - 3:23 (1002 kbps , 24.29 MB)
  43. The Flys - Night Creatures (Single Version) (Bonus Track) - 3:05 (988 kbps , 21.74 MB)
  44. The Flys - Lois Lane (Bonus Track) - 2:37 (968 kbps , 18.16 MB)
  45. The Flys - Today Belongs To Me (Bonus Track) - 2:29 (1005 kbps , 17.83 MB)
  46. The Flys - What Will Mother Say (Bonus Track) - 3:42 (928 kbps , 24.61 MB)
  47. The Flys - Undercover Agent Zero (Single Version) (Bonus Track) - 3:30 (985 kbps , 24.6 MB)
  48. The Flys - Come On Stupid (Bonus Track) - 3:35 (840 kbps , 21.54 MB)
  49. The Flys - Program (Bonus Track) - 3:40 (914 kbps , 23.99 MB)
  50. The Flys - Down Your End Of The Phone (Bonus Track) - 3:06 (891 kbps , 19.71 MB)
  51. The Flys - Hang On (Bonus Track) - 2:46 (873 kbps , 17.32 MB)
  52. The Flys - I Say (Bonus Track) - 3:03 (910 kbps , 19.88 MB)
  53. The Flys - Living In The Sticks (Second Demo Version) (Bonus Track) - 3:20 (862 kbps , 20.53 MB)

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