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Thread #37741 Message #2991410
Posted By: Jim Dixon
22-Sep-10 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Such a Getting Upstairs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Such a Getting Upstairs
The oldest reference to the song I can find with Google Books is in The New-York Mirror, Volume 16 (Feb. 2, 1839), page 256:By late London papers before us, we perceive that Race has found out a new way to please John Bull. The popularity of "Jim Crow" seems to be eclipsed by the "new fancy song" of "Sich a gittin up stairs."