Dallas Morning News (March 29, 1900) p.10:

"Old airs of fifty years ago were played, and as ‘Money Musk,’ ‘Billie in the Low Ground,’ ‘Arkansaw Traveler,’ ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me,’ ‘Dan Tucker,’ ‘Sugar in the Gourd,’ ‘Prettiest Little Girl in the County,’ ‘Black Jack Grove,’ ‘Cotton-Eyed Joe’ and similar pieces were played, the audience went wild.”

Presumably all of the above were known, in Texas, before the Civil War.



Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.) (Apr. 13, 1900), p. 5:

“Among the numbers will be such as Cotton-eyed Joe, Suwanee River, Bonnie Blue Flag, Black Jack Grove, Fishers’ Hornpipe, Arkansaw Traveler, Gwine Back to Dixie, Possum up a Gum Stump, Sweet Taters in Sandy Land, Leather Breeches, etc.”

["I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" is a minstrel song by C. A. White, published (in Boston) in 1874.]



Nashville Tennessean (May 5, 1900), p. 5:

“Old Fiddlers’ Contest…[in] Tullahoma....:

Arkansaw Traveler
McCorton
Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel
Whisky Joe
Sail Away, Ladies
Leather Breeches
The Soldier’s Joy
Sallie Booden [sic]
Kiss Me Sweetly
Lillie Dale
Injun Eat the Woodchuck
Cheatham
Eighth of January
Hornpipe,
Old Dan Tucker.




Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) (June 28, 1900), p. 3:

“Old Fiddlers’ Contest…Programme:

1. The Girl I Left Behind Me.
2. Rye Straw.
3. Arkansaw Traveler.
4. Listen to the Mocking Bird.
5. Yankee Doodle.
6. Hell Broke Loose in Georgia.
7. Cotton-Eyed Joe.
8. Campbells Are Coming.
9. Black Jack Grove.
10. Billie in the Lowlands.
11. Moses in the Bullrushes.
12. Dixie.
13. Bonnie Blue Flag.
14. Suwannee River.
15. Home, Sweet Home.”