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Thread #47009   Message #699359
Posted By: masato sakurai
26-Apr-02 - 09:29 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Lynchburg Town
Subject: RE: Tune Req: LYNCHBURG TOWN
The version in the Levy Collection Click here and on page number below):

Title: Sweeny's Virginia Melodies. Jonny Boker, or, De Broken Yoke in de Coaling Ground. The Original Banjo Song.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: na
Publication: Boston: Henry Prentiss, 33 Court St., 1840.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: As I went up to Lynchburg town, I broke my yoke on de coaling ground
First Line of Chorus: O Jonny Boker help dat nigger do Jonny Boker do
Performer: As sung with great applause at the Tremont Theatre, By J.W. Sweeny
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: R. Cooke, del. B.W. Thayer's Lith. Boston

~Masato