From the Levy Collection (Click here).
Title: Al Jolson's Big Hit in the Winter Garden. Waiting for the Robert E. Lee.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by L. Wolfe Gilbert. Music by Lewis F. Muir.
Publication: New York: F.A. Mills, 122 W. 38th St., 1912.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Way down on the levee in old Alabamy, there's daddy and mammy
First Line of Chorus: Watch them shufflin' along, see them shufflin' along
Performer: Al Jolson
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: unattrib. photo of Al Jolson; De Takals
~Masato