Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster)

Subject: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster)
From: Tiger
Date: 03 May 02 - 08:33 AM

Searching for a friend who sent me this note. I have had no luck.

Do any of you 'catters recognize it?

Thanks......Tiger (note follows)

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I've been trying to find the words to an old song for my mothers friend (a very lovely 75 year old gentleman). He thought the song was called "Dear Old Uncle Ned" but you sent me the words to that song and it's not the right one.

I was hopeing that if i told you the words of the song that he can remember you might be able to help me, (i'm getting desperate). This is what he remembers, with a line missing here and there.

At a New York steamboat landing
Sat a darkie old and gray
When a stranger passing by approached and said
Bless your heart is that you Dear Old Uncle Ned
Yes that's me massa Harry
How's old Mrs and Black Cole
And tell me are my picininnys alive or dead

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster)
From: masato sakurai
Date: 04 May 02 - 06:54 AM

No luck with this song, but there're several "Uncle Ned" songs other than Foster in Newman I. White, American Negro Folk-Songs (pp. 164-166) and in Thomas Talley's Negro Folk Rhymes (newly ed. by Wolfe, pp. 53-54).

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster)
From: Tiger
Date: 04 May 02 - 09:43 AM

Hi, Masato.....

Did you actually check those books against my song snippet, or are they references that need to be looked up?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster)
From: masato sakurai
Date: 04 May 02 - 10:10 AM

Tiger, I did check them up. They (all of them are titled "Uncle Ned") are different songs.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster)
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 May 02 - 11:28 AM

Not found in Christy's Nigga Songster (only the usual Old Ned derived from Foster). I would guess that the song is from near 1890 from the verse provided.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster)
From: Tiger
Date: 09 May 02 - 06:13 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster)
From: Tiger
Date: 28 May 02 - 12:06 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster)
From: Tiger
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 09:15 AM

refresh, one last time

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster)
From: masato sakurai
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 08:07 PM

Tiger,I'm still looking for it, without success.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 10:30 PM

Tiger, suggest you PM Mudcatter Butch. He seems to have some expertise in this area.

~S~