Mudcat Café message #1053349

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Thread #64426 Message #1053349
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
13-Nov-03 - 05:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Wal, I Swan / Giddyap Napoleon (B H Burt)
Subject: RE: Gitty Up Napoleon

The author is Benjamin Hapgood Burt, sheet music issued in 1907 by M. Witmark and Sons, NY.
Recorded in 1926 by Riley Puckett and by Al Bernard, and by Tanner and the Skillet Lickers as "Giddap Napoleon" in 1931 (Trad. Ballad Indexcufresno). A copy at the Levy Collection is not shown (subtitle Ebenezer Frye); performed in the play, "The Yankee Tourist."

Everyone seems to have copied the song from Pious Friends, Shay, even with the same mis-spelling of Reubensville (As ReubensviUe) in the first line (sheet music had Reuben's ville(?)).