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Thread #98593 Message #1954040
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
31-Jan-07 - 07:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Oh! Wake Up in de Morning (minstrel)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Get up in the Morning (minstrel)
Original sheet music for "Jim Crack Corn or The Blue Tail Fly" at American Memory and Levy Sheet Music. The Virginia Minstrels, 1846. The opening notes are similar to those of "Miss Lucy Long." http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Another copy at Levy Sheet Music- http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/levy-cgi/display.cgi?id=020.008.000;pages=3;range=0-2
Singers of the 'folk song era,' including those you mentioned, used slight variations on the original for their interpretations.
Threads here at Mudcat on "Jimmy Crack Corn" and "Blue tail Fly" may have some information, but I know of no old related song, "Get up ..."