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Thread #22794   Message #249195
Posted By: Dale Rose
29-Jun-00 - 11:35 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Coot from Tennessee
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coot from Tennessee
It's actually Coon From Tennessee, done by Charlie Poole and others, someone has just adjusted the title. Actually, the CORRECT title is I'm goin' to live anyhow, 'till I die ~~ words and music by Shepard N. Edmonds, 1901. Go to American Memory Collections at the Library of Congress, enter coon from tennessee in the search box, select match this exact phrase from the drop down box, and there ya go. Two versions will come up, one from Brown University's African American Sheet Music and one from Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music. Charlie Poole adjusted the original quite a bit, though, as you'll see when you get there.

While you are there, explore a bit, TONS and TONS of interesting things available from the LOC, too much to explain here.