Thomas Washington Talley's 1922 book Negro Folk Rhymes, Wise And Other Wise is an important collection of African American secular songs from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Lyrics to a number of songs from that book have been posted to various threads on this forum. Those posts usually include comments about those songs.

The purpose of this thread is to present a hyperlinked list of Mudcat posts that include the lyrics of some songs found in Talley's Negro Folk Rhymes, or otherwise refer to that book.

Another purpose of this thread is to post links to and excerpts from reviews of Negro Folk Rhymes and another book "The Negro Tradions" that was edited by Thomas Washington Talley. Furthermore, I'll be posting several other songs from Talley's collection on to this thread, along with comments about those examples.

I'm hoping that this rhread becomes more than a place to present links, information, and song lyrics. I'd love it if Mudcat members and guests would share examples and/or comments about these songs and about related songs & rhymes, as well as information about Thomas W. Talley himself.

Thanks in advance for reading this thread and for posting to this thread.

Azizi Powell