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Thread #54913   Message #852035
Posted By: masato sakurai
22-Dec-02 - 12:16 AM
Thread Name: Origins: My Wife Died on a Saturday Night/Plank Rd
Subject: RE: Lyr. Req: My Wife Died on A Sat. Night
Isn't this (from Levy) related?

Title: Songs of the Virginia Serenaders. De Ole Grey Goose.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Arranged for the Piano Forte by J.W. Turner. Written and composed by J.P. Carter.
J. P. Carter Publication: Boston: Keith's Music Publishing House, 67 & 69 Court St., 1844.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: I am a nigger hard to beat, Hot from de North Carlina
First Line of Chorus: Oh! look ober yonder, Dont you see de ole grey goose
Performer: As sung by the Virginia Serenaders
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: Thayer & Co's Lith.
Plate Number: 239-2
Subject: Portraits
Subject: Musicians
Subject: Violins
Subject: Banjos
Subject: Percussion instruments
Subject: African Americans
Subject: Caricatures
Subject: Courtship & love
Subject: Dancing
Subject: Crying
Subject: Ethnic stereotypes
Subject: Dialects

~Masato