It Takes a Long Tall Brown-skin Gal to Make a Preacher Lay His Bible Down [sheet music] de Walker, Marshall; music by Will E. Skidmore - 1917

Kansas City, MO: Will E. Skidmore, 1917. Four-panel, 10.5x13.5 inch sheet music, chipped and with old clear tape reinforcements to tears; a reference example only. Laid in is a sheet with the hand-copied lyrics. Cover includes a portrait of the Vaudeville singer Rae Samuels. Lyrics in stereotyped dialect.
"It takes a Long, Tall, Brown-Skin Gal to make a preacher lay his Bible down / For twenty years I'se pass'd Joy by / but now I'm goin' to get mine till I die / I always thought that preachin' was my line / but since I met this gal I chang'd my min', / It takes a Long Tall Brown-Skin Gal to make a preacher lay his Bible down...