De coon dinner / by Jacob J. Sawyer
| Title | De coon dinner / by Jacob J. Sawyer |
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| Subject | African Americans -- Songs and music |
| Popular music -- United States | |
| Popular music -- To 1901 | |
| Songs with piano | |
| Description | For voice and piano |
| Caption title | |
| Pages 1-2 are unnumbered | |
| Cover has listing of titles in the series within a geometric frame | |
| Advertisement for other music: p. [4] | |
| Creator | Sawyer, J. J. (Jacob J.) |
| Publisher | [Boston?] : W.A. Evans & Bro. |
| Date | 1882 |
| Rights |
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| Format | Sheet music |
| Published works | |
| image/jpeg | |
| Type | Image |
| Text | |
| Identifier | SMC 01533 |
| https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/items/show/34028 | |
| Alternative Title | First line of text: White folks I'se a gwine for to sing a little song |
| First line of chorus: Oh dat dinner de ole coon dinner | |
| Is Part Of | Sheet Music Collection, Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives, University Libraries, Bowling Green State University |
| References | https://maurice.bgsu.edu:443/record=b3005704~S9 |
VERSE: White folks I’se a gwine for to sing a little song its not so berry pretty and its not so berry long its all about a dinner I attended in de west,/So if you all will listen I will try and do my best./Bedrock and de gen’ral missisip and forty nine,/Lawyer Tile and Store Clothes would drop in for a while dey were all invited and we speeted quite a time to eat de ole coon dinner at de cabin forty nine.CHORUS: Oh dat dinner de ole coon dinner will you eber forget de time at de cabin of forty nine/When we say down to the ole coon dinner. | |
| Original Format | 1 score (3 pages, 1 unnumbered page) 33 cm |
