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Thread #14779   Message #3949525
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-Sep-18 - 05:17 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Dummy Line (additional verses)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Dummy Line (additional verses)
"May Irwin's latest hit"
ON THE DUMMY LINE: GOON SONG*
Words and music by James Grayson
Nashville: R. Dorman & Co, ©1896.

First line?: Now let me tell you what the Dummy done

The above information is from the library catalog of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, which holds the sheet music. Unfortunately, images are not viewable online.

* Apparently a typo or a deliberate obfuscation/expurgation: this advertisement calls it a “coon song.” May Irwin was a notorious “coon impersonator” and singer of “coon songs” that engaged in egregious racial stereotyping.