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Thread #25017 Message #1755083
Posted By: Joe Offer
07-Jun-06 - 01:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Silver Dollar / Man without a Woman
Subject: RE: Origins: Silver Dollar / Man without a Woman
For the record, here is the entry from the Levy Sheet Music Collection. They can't display the music because the arrangement was published after 1923, and thus is still under copyright.
Title: Silver Dollar.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: by Jack Palmer and Clarke Van Ness.
Clarke Van Ness Publication: New York: Hampshire House, Inc., 1619 Broadway, 1939, 1950.
Form of Composition: da capo
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: You can throw a silver dollar down upon the ground and it will roll
First Line of Chorus: A man without a woman is like a ship without a sail
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Call No.: Box: 177 Item: 089
Apparently, our primary source for tune and lyrics of Silver Dollar / Man without a Woman is New Song Fest. There's a song called "A Man Without a Woman" in a book called Alabama Folk Lyrics - anybody got that one?
-Joe Offer-