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Thread #52464   Message #803315
Posted By: masato sakurai
15-Oct-02 - 02:18 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Jim Along Josey / Jim Along Josie
Subject: RE: Jim Along Josie: lyrics and origin
From the Bodleian Library collection:

Printer: Sanderson (Edinburgh)
Date: between 1830 and 1910
Imprint: Sanderson, Printer, Edinburgh
Illus. Ballads on sheet: 1
Note: Imprint defaced
Copies: Firth b.34(153)
Ballads: 1. Jim along Josey ("Oh, I'm from Lusiana, as you must all know ...")
Subject: Blackface minstrelsy
Note: Slip

Printer: Hodges, E.M.A. (London)
Date: between 1855 and 1861
Imprint: Notice - E. Hodges has Removed from 3...
Ballads on sheet: 1
Note: Slip. Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(2186)
Copies: Firth b.25(370)
Harding B 16(130b)
Ballads: 1. London exhibitions ("The names of two great warriers, [sic] whom here you may see ...")
Performer: Sharp, John W.
To the tune of: Jim along Josey
Subject: Entertainments; London (England)

Printer: Pitts, J. (London)
Date: between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: [Pi]tts, Printer, Toy and Marble Warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Illus. Ballads on sheet: 1
Note: Imprint cropped
Copies: Harding B 15(148a)
Ballads: 1. Jim along Josey ("Oh, I'se from Lusiana, as you must all know ...")
Subject: Blackface minstrelsy
Note: Slip. Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(1787)

Printer: Pitts, J. (London)
Date: between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Pitts, Printer, Toy and Marble Warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Illus. Ballads on sheet: 2
Copies: Harding B 11(1787)
Ballads: 1. Irish Molly, O! ("As I walk'd out one morning all in the month of May ...")
Subject: Rejected suitor; Ireland
2. Jim along Josey ("Oh, I'se from Lusiana, as you must all know ...")
Subject: Blackface minstrelsy; Fashions; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

Printer: Birt, T. (London)
Date: between 1833 and 1841
Imprint: Birt, Printer, 39, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Illus. Ballads on sheet: 1
Copies: Harding B 14(100)
Ballads: 1. Jim along Josey's invitation to the royal christening ("I comes o'er de seas in storms and gales ...")
To the tune of: Jim along Josey
Subject: Blackface minstrelsy; 1842; Royal family; Edward, VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910

Printer: Birt (London)
Date: between 1833 and 1851
Imprint: Birt, Printer, 39, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials, London
Illus. Ballads on sheet: 2
Copies: Harding B 11(1872)
Ballads: 1. Jim along Josey ("Oh! I'se from Lusiana, as you must all know ...")
Subject: Blackface minstrelsy
2. Burlington bay ("The rain fell in torrents, the wind whistled shrill ...")
Subject: Shipwreck; Fishermen

Printer: Hodges, E.M.A. (London)
Date: between 1855 and 1861
Imprint: Hodges, (from Pitts) Wholesale Toy Warehouse, [31, Dudley] Street, Seven Dials. Notice, E. Hodges has Removed from 31 Dudley St., to 26, Grafton-street Soho
Ballads on sheet: 2
Copies: Harding B 11(2186)
Ballads: 1. London exhibitions ("The names of two great warriors, whom here you may see ...")
Performer: Sharp, John W.
To the tune of: Jim along Josey [and others]
Subject: Great Exhibition, 1851; Indians of North America; Amusements; Chinese; Americans; Waxworks; London (England)
2. Love in a hayband ("Did you ever hear of one Richard Short's history ...")
Subject: Rural society; Taverns

Printer: Paul, C. (London)
Date: [1841]
Imprint: Paul, Printer, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven [Dials]
Illus. Ballads on sheet: 1
Copies: Harding B 14(133)
Johnson Ballads 692
Johnson Ballads 693
Ballads: 1. The royal rival nurses ("You all recollect well a little time ago ...")
To the tune of: Jim along Josey
Subject: Drinking - women; Servants; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901

Sheet Title: Elwina
Printer: Pitts, J. (London)
Date: between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Pitts, Printer, Toy and Marble Warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Illus. Ballads on sheet: 8
Copies: Johnson Ballads fol. 114
Ballads: 1. Irish Molly, O! ("As I walk'd out one morning all in the month of May ...")
2. Jim along Josey ("Oh I'se from Lusiana, as you must all know ...")
Subject: Blackface minstrelsy
3. The robbers of the glen ("Stand! stranger! stand! your jewels give ...")
4. How sweet it is to love ("Oh, how sweet it is to love ...")
5. Hail, to thee, Tyrol! ("Hail to thee, Tyrol! dear native Tyrol! ...")
Subject: Tyrol, the
6. My dear native isle ("Dear native isle, the summer sun is glowing ...")
7. My own dear home ("Wherever I wander, wherever I stray ...")
Subject: Marriage
8. The fisher boat ("No reefer struts upon the deck ...")
Author: Green, T.W.
Subject: Fishermen

Printer: King, T. (Birmingham)
Date: c.1845
Imprint: Printed by T. King, Birmingham, and sold by Mr. Green, at his Music Stall, near the Turnpike, City Road, London
Ballads on sheet: 1
Note: Cropped top edge; lacks title
Copies: Johnson Ballads 1431
Ballads: 1. [London exhibitions] ("The names of two great warriors, whom here you may seee [sic] ...")
To the tune of: Jim along Josey
Subject: Entertainments; Indians of North America; Madame Tussaud's