The "Charming Emma Snow" posted above is a variant, meant to avoid copyright. Here is the original.

Lyr. Add: EMMA SNOW
Campbell Minstrels, arr. Henry Chadwick

Way down in Alabama,
Not bery long ago,
I know a yallow charmer,
And her name was Emma Snow.
Her eyes were bright as diamonds,
And her teeth were pearly white,
And dey glisten'd in the darkness,
Like the stars do in the night.

Chorus:
But the happy time is over,
I've only grief and pain,
For I shall neber, neber see
my Emma Snow again.

She used to go out early
To hoe de sugar cane,
De time it pass so cheerly
Whar my Emma Snow war seen,
And when our work was ober
And de night had come again
We danced and sung so gaily
To de banjo's sweetest strain.

Chorus

But de happiest heart has sorrow,
De brightest day has night,
And I lost my lubly Emma
By de pizen adders bite,
We missed her in de ebening
And we hunted far and wide,
We found her in de meadow
Whar she sicken'd and she died.

Campbell Minstrels, sheet music Sept. 1848, Wm. Hall and Son, NY.
American Memory, Index
Click on Music and enter song name. Item 4, Emma Stone. Item 2 is an 1849 reprint by Hall, an arrangement by Henry Chadwick for the Spanish guitar, no change in lyrics.


John A. Stone used the tune for his "Australia and the Amazon," 1855, "Original California Songster," reprinted by Dwyer and Lingenfelter in "The Songs of the Gold Rush," p. 80.